Re: [BLAST_ANAWARE] Error Propagation in ROOT -- beware!

From: Adrian T Sindile (asindile@cisunix.unh.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 12:42:36 EDT


Hi, Chris!

> Adrian, I remember you saying you used ROOT for error
> propagation, so you may want to double-check your code too.

I checked my code and I can say I did NOT use the same histogram twice, so
my code should be error-free from this point of view.
The way I did it was to define two other histograms leftMinus and
leftPlus, for example, avoiding using the same leftThMinus or leftThPlus
twice:

leftMinus->Add(leftThPlus, leftThMinus, 1./qPlus, -1./qMinus);
leftPlus->Add(leftThPlus, leftThMinus, 1./qPlus, 1./qMinus);
leftAsym->Divide(leftMinus, leftPlus);

Then, I propagate errors by hand for the super-ratio and GE/GM.
So, if my code gave different error bars from the common BLAST codes, this
is one error my code did NOT have.

Adrian



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