Re: [ROOT] Updating histogram statistics

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 12:08:24 MEST


Hi Mariusz,

Sorry, I see your old mail just now.

You can reset the internal accumulated statistics. This will force
GetMean, GetRMS to recompute the statistics from the actual bin contents.
Assuming a TH1* h;

Do:
   double stats[4] = {0,0,0,0};
   h->PutStats(stats);
   h->GetRMS();

Rene Brun


On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mariusz Sapinski wrote:

> 
>  I send this mail again because i am not sure if it reached roottalk list.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
>  Hello,
>   we are using root version 3.02/07. We use SetBinContent
> to clean histograms from noise (bins with small contents are set to 0). We 
> would like to have mean and RMS of cleaned histograms but unfortunately the 
> histogram statistics (stats[]) is not being updated. Is there any method 
> to update stats[]?
> 
>   Best regards,
> 
>             Julien and Mariusz
> 
> 
> 



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