Re: [ROOT] TH1 overflow bins and a Mean value

From: Ilia Ravinovich (ravini@wicc.weizmann.ac.il)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 10:12:36 MEST


On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Rene Brun wrote:

Hi Rene,

I understand it as a convenient tradition, but sometimes it would be 
useful having both. Is it possible to have an option in 

gStyle->SetOptStat(.....)

Thanks,

Ilia

> Not a bug or a feature. Just a convenient tradition.
> 
> Rene Brun
> 
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, 
> Aleksandr Tkachev wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It looks like overflow bins in TH1 class have no effect on a calculation of 
> > the mean value :
> > 
> > root [0] TH1F hist("test","test",10,0,10);
> > root [1] hist->Fill(5.4);
> > root [2] hist->Fill(15.5);
> > root [3] hist->GetMean()
> > (const Stat_t)5.40000000000000036e+00
> > 
> > Is it a bug or feature ?
> > Thanks,
> > Sasha.
> > 
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