Hi Rene,
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Rene Brun wrote:
> 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
>
You are right as long as its a statistical error, which is not my
case where , e.g.,
error = xweight/sqrt(n) ;
n being the Number of averages in Schottky spectra.
Any other suggestion..
Greetings,
Faouzi
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