[Rivet] [Rivet-svn] r4227 - branches/2012-06-aidarivet/bin branches/2012-06-aidarivet/doc trunk/bin trunk/doc

[Andy Buckley]

Gotcha. So it's probably wrong in several situations.

We need to rewrite this thing, but one step at a time :)


On 18/03/13 16:04, Hendrik Hoeth wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> the rebinning option is ancient. From the documentation:
> 
> ================================================================
> --------------------
> Rebin=<nbins>
> --------------------
> Rebin the histogram. Starting with the lowest bin <nbins> bins are
> combined into a new bin. If the number of bins in the histogram is not a
> multiple of <nbins>, the remaining bins at the upper histogram end are
> silently ignored (i.e. if the original histogram has 10 bins and <nbins>
> is 3, the plotted histogram shows three bins combining the bins 1--9 of
> the original histogram).
> 
> --------------------
> EnvelopeRebin=<nbins>
> --------------------
> Rebin an envelope histogram where the error bars represent an envelope.
> Thus, they are combined linearly instead of as sum of squares. The
> functionality is the same as 'Rebin' otherwise.
> ================================================================
> 
> Errors are treated as purely statistical and independent.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Hendrik
> 


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