How to fill the TGraphAsymmErrors

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Hi,
I have a question about filling the TGraphAsymmErrors object.
I set a gsyst to plot the statistic uncertainty band of h1. I set the code as:

gsyst = ROOT.TGraphAsymmErrors(h1)
for j in range (1,gsyst.GetN()+1):
    total_unc = 0
    total_unc += pow(h1.GetBinErrorj), 2)
    total_unc = sqrt(total_unc)
    gsyst.SetPointEYlow(j-1, total_unc)
    gsyst.SetPointEYhigh(j-1, total_unc)

gsyst.Draw("E2same")

What I am not sure is should I fill the gsyst with j or j-1? I mean should it be:

gsyst.SetPointEYlow(j, total_unc)
gsyst.SetPointEYhigh(j, total_unc)

or

 gsyst.SetPointEYlow(j-1, total_unc)
 gsyst.SetPointEYhigh(j-1, total_unc)

Cheers,
Jen

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Dear Jen,

Welcome back to the ROOT Forum.
The first point of graphs, including TGraphAsymmErrors, is always indexed with zero.

Cheers,
D

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do you mean I should use
gsyst.SetPointEYlow(j-1, total_unc)

?

And for h1 histogram, the first point is indexed with zero or one?

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TGraphXXX classes deal with C++ vectors. So they are indexed from 0 to N-1 if they have N entries. In your example if j starts at 1 and you want to index the first entry of your TGraph, yes, in that case, you should use j-1.

Histogram classes deal with bins. If your histogram has N bins they are numbered from 1 to N

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ok. Thanks a lot.

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