[Rivet] Quantify the "agreemnet" with Rivet

[Liron Barak]

Hi Holger, Andy,

Many thanks! GofLegend=1 worked perfectly :)
For what Andy suggested, what is Rivet 2? Is that implemented in athena too?

Many thanks
Liron


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Andy Buckley <andy.buckley at cern.ch> wrote:

> With Rivet 2 you also have full programmatic access to the histograms
> via YODA, so it should not be a lot of work to make your own numerical
> comparisons. The tools for doing this should improve as YODA and the
> plotting tools develop and become better integrated. Contact us if you
> need any help with using the YODA Python or C++ interfaces.
>
> But the make-plots GoF measure suggested by Holger is definitely the
> easiest "built-in" way at the moment, although it doesn't give you
> _programmatic_ access to the quality of fit number.
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 12/03/14 15:33, Holger Schulz wrote:
> > On 12/03/14 14:15, Liron Barak wrote:
> >> Dear Rivet experts,
> >>
> >> I do some MC studies and I use Rivet all the time to compare the
> >> different MC options with the data, thanks for the nice tool!
> >> I mainly look on the ratio (to the data) and see the agreement... I
> >> wonder if Rivet can also give me back some kind of number? A way to
> >> quantify what is the closest to data not by eye.....
> >>
> >> Many thanks
> >> Liron
> >>
> >>
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> > Hi Liron,
> >
> > you could use the built-in feature of make-plots to calculate a GoF
> measure
> > and display it in the Legend.
> >
> > In order to make this appear, add
> >
> > GofLegend=1
> >
> > in the PLOT section of the input files for make-plots.
> >
> > On the command line you could do this e.g. by running this command:
> >
> > for i in *dat;do sed -i "s/Legend=1/Legend=1\nGofLegend=1/g" $i;done
> >
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Holger
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN
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