Division of two histograms

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Dear Experts

I would like to divide two histograms h2 by h1. Following two histograms which I am dividing are as follows in the order of h1 and h2. My ROOT macro (where I am trying to divide them) is also attached along with the two Root files. Please check if the method I am following is correct as the output histogram should be close to 1 with mean value around 0.999

h1
h11198×976 10.7 KB

h2
h21844×992 9.61 KB

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The code seems ok. Maybe Divide does not do what you think/want; see the source code for Divide.

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I also checked the resulting histogram everything is correct.
Since h1 and h2 are more or less the same you obtain a flat distribution with height close to 1.
And for a flat distribution like yours you have for mean and std dev.

\mu=\frac{b-a}{2}\sim \frac{10-0}{2}\sim5\\ \sigma=\sqrt{\frac{b^2-a^2}{12}}\sim\sqrt{\frac{10^2-0^2}{12}}\sim2.89

And the statistics of the histogram you obtain match with these numbers.

Maybe you are referring to the distribution of the histogram bins content that should have a mean close to 1.

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Actually the output histogram should be like the following after taking the ratio between total energy and photon energy
ratio

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I think you are confused about how Divide works. What it does is that it takes the content of bin #1 of one histogram, divides it by the bin content of bin #1 of another histogram and puts this ratio in bin #1 of a new histogram. Rinse and repeat for all bins.

However, what you want is probably dividing the x-values of two histograms. But this is not what Divide does.

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Thanks kindly suggest how I can divide x-values of two histograms

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How would you do that by hand, if you didn’t have software? I don’t know what that means exactly, and maybe you don’t either. Perhaps yus can give you the code to what s/he meant by that, but you will not have learnt much (then again, maybe that’s fine with you, but I think it’s better to learn something :slight_smile: ). My suggestion: first of all, think about it, come up with a well-defined problem and a well-defined solution, how you would do it by hand (test it if you must), and then see if there’s already a way to do that in ROOT, or write the code yourself. As it is now, I don’t think you have expressed clearly what you are trying to do and how. You first said “I would like to divide two histograms h2 by h1”; and it would seem that Divide does something like that, but depends on what you really mean, so…