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6 Error Form

PSS can produce either SYMMETRIC or ASYMMETRIC errors at any confidence level. For a given fitted source parameter (x,y,flux and optionally background and extension) it is possible to find both upper and lower limits and the given confidence levels. In the SYMMETRIC case the average of the two is returned - ASYMMETRIC returns both.


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