Re: ISIS: loading data with proper statistical error

From: John Houck <houck_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:56:50 -0500
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 17:39 -0500, Michael Nowak wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Nicolas Barrière wrote:
> >> 
> >> If your concern in your last question is whether in rebinning, errors are propagated by 
> >> something like adding quadrature, don't worry, they're not (unless you write that
> >> yourself).
> > 
> > Yes that was my concern. Thanks a lot for your clarifications.
> 
> I should also re-clarify that rebinning trumps get_data_counts/put_data_counts.
> So, if you create your own Gehrels statistic and use put_data_counts, and then rebin, 
> post-rebin errors will be replaced by whatever you've chosen via set_fit_statistic.

Note that you can also use 'set_rebin_error_method' to
customize how error propagation should work with rebinning.

Thanks,
-John

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