[ROOT] Binomial Error

From: Stanley Forrester (sforrest@lifshitz.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 22:00:31 MET


I'm having some trouble with displaying error bars on an efficency plot.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Also why does one need to call 
Clone before "dividing."

The data in the histo "em8" is a subset of the data in histo "all" so I'm 
trying to use the  binomial error method.  The resulting histogram 
displays error bars equal to the value the contents of the bin.  

  TH1F* all = CEM8Track5Validation_All_electronEt;
  TH1F* em8 = CEM8Track5Validation_Electron_Central_8_v_electronEt;
  TH1F *e_ratioEt = 
  (TH1F*)CEM8Track5Validation_Electron_Central_8_v_electronEt
     ->Clone();
  e_ratioEt->Divide(em8, all,1,1, "B");  
  all->Draw();
  em8->Draw();
  e_ratioEt->Draw("e");

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