Rescaling 2 datasets and plotOn its sum

[StephanH]

Hello Evgeny,

what you need is probably a weight. You can assign different weights to signal and background, and then make one big dataset that has both event classes.

I showed how to do this in this post:

Combining multiple individually weighted RooDataSets?

Ok, it wasn’t easy, but here’s what needs to be done: All datasets (the final one and the ones you use for merging) need to have a WeightVar(scale) set. You need to change the value of scale before you create the intermediate datasets. Since the original data that you Import() from don’t have values for scale, it just retains the value that it had before the dataset was created. Then append to the global dataset. Side note: The usual syntax for getting a value is getVal(). getValV() is only …