TF ErrAna Homework

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Errors

Give examples of 5 a Systematic error.

Find 3 published examples of data which is wrongly represented.

Identify what is incorrect about it. What does it mean to be wrongly presented? A typical example is a political poll which does not identify the statistical uncertainty properly or at all.

Create a Histogram using ROOT

some commands that may interest you


root [1] TH1F *Hist1=new TH1F("Hist1","Hist1",50,0.5,49.5)
root [2] Hist1->Fill(10);
root [3] Hist1->Draw();

You can use the above commands but you need to change the names and numbers above to receive credit. You must also add a title to the histogram which contains your full name. You will printout the histogram and hand it in with the above two problems.

Mean and SD

Probability Distributions

Error Propagation