Re: TH1D::GetMean()

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 17:43:07 MEST


Pasha Murat wrote:
> 
> 
> TH1::GetMean() returns the mean calculated over the
> binned contents of the histogram, so under certain circumstances
> (like a histogram with bin 3 filled with even integers) the returned mean
> can be different from the real one.
>                                                 best, pasha

Hi Pasha,
NOT TRUE !!
TH1::Getmean returns the mean calculated at fill time. This must be very
precise.
Only in case you call GetMean on a sub-range of a histogram, the binned
contents are used (no choice in this case!). In this case, the mean is
computed
assuming the center of each bin.

Rene Brun



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