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Comparison of Weighted versus Unweighted events:

This is in general undesirable, as it forces you into the less accurate Gaussian approximation. Thus it is preferable, for example, to have unweighted Monte Carlo events if you need to use HDIFFB to compare with data. The only useful case is if the weighted histogram is the reference histogram in the C comparison, which only makes sense if you have much better accuracy than your data.


Janne Saarela
Tue May 16 09:09:27 METDST 1995