[Rivet] mcplots

Hendrik Hoeth hendrik.hoeth at cern.ch
Wed Jun 1 11:35:43 BST 2011


Thus spake Andy Buckley (andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk):

> As you've noted, for plots which are just normal or profile
> histograms (and in the normal case you don't care about
> normalisation), then you can get adequate (but inexact) statistical
> merging by adding/averaging the bin values in each histo across your
> different runs...

And for the profile histos in e.g. the CDF leading jet UE analysis you
can slice the histograms easily using rivet-mergeruns. That's what I
always do for them.

Cheers,

    Hendrik

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