[Rivet] MC uncertainties

Andy Buckley andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk
Wed Apr 28 14:39:43 BST 2010


On 28/04/10 14:31, Flavia Dias wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to know how could I plot statistical errors of the MC on my
> Rivet analysis, to know if my MC is compatible to data within its errors. 

Hi Flavia,

Just use the --mc-errs option on the compare-histos script. Or if you
want to do it manually, add the "ErrorBars=1" option to the .dat files
for the MC lines you want to show errors on.

Andy

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