[Rivet] setSumOfWeights

[Andy Buckley]

Hi Silvan,

The issue is that more than the sum of weights alone is needed now. Can you also supply the sum of squared weights? If so, I'll add an extra argument and an implementation to version 2.6.1.
Andy
Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of Glasgow

On Mar 14 2018, at 11:45 pm, Silvan Kuttimalai <silvan at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Rivet Authors,
> we noted that in Rivet version 2.6.0 the method
> AnalysisHandler::setSumOfWeights is not present anymore. We used this
> method in Sherpa in order to automatically split up our rivet analysis
> output by contributions from H and S events in MC at NLO for example. To
> get the normalization of these sub contributions right, we set the sum
> of weights explicitly at the end of the run. Is there an alternative for
> this procedure in the new version?
>
> Many thanks,
> Silvan
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