[ROOT] Re: Fit on TGraphError doesn't care about errors in x

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 09:04:09 MET


Hi Christian,

I do not see your effect. I obtain 3 totally different plots/results
in your 3 cases.
Please indicate which version of Root?
see:http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/RoottalkRules.html

Rene Brun

On 
Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Christian Hansen wrote:

> 
> Dear Rooters,
> 
> I have a question about TGraphErrors.
> 
> I'm not so good in statistics but I still think it is 
> strange that in my program (testFit.C, attached) the
> fit results (see the stat-boxes in the attached .ps files) 
> do not change if I add errors in x but do change if I add 
> errors in y. 
> Is this statistical explainable or is there a bug in my program?
> 
> With best regards 
> / Christian Hansen
> 



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