Re: TH1::FillError() function

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Dec 02 1998 - 17:02:16 MET


Faouzi Attallah wrote:
> 
> Hi Everybody
> 
> I would like to fill up a histogram (hf) with a user-weight-error,
> such as
>         hf->Fill(xval, xweight)  ;
>         hf->FillError(xval, error) ;
> 
> The problem is my *vector(xval, xweight, error) is not sorted to
> allow any use of TH1::SetBinContent()/SetBinError()
> Any suggestion ..
> 
> Greetings,
 
 Hi Faouzi,
The normal procedure to fill an histogram with weights and correct
storage of the error bars is:
   TH1F *hf = new TH1F("hf",...
   hf->Sumw2();
   hf->Fill(xval,xweight);

The error in bin I will be computed by taking sqrt((sum of xweight)^2)

Rene Brun



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