Values with uncertanties: ValueWithError
One of the central object in ostap
is C++
class Ostap::Math::ValutWithError
, accessible in python via shortcut VE
. This class stands fot r a combination of the value with uncertainties:
from ostap.math.ve import VE
a = VE( 10 , 10 ) ## the value & squared uncertainty - 'variance'
b = VE( 20 , 20 ) ## the value & squared uncertainty - 'variance'
print "a=%s" % a
print "b=%s" % b
print 'Value of a is %s' % a.value()
print 'Effor of b is %s' % b.error()
print 'Variance of b is %s' % b.cov2 ()
A lot of math operations are predefined for VE
-objects.
Challenge
Make a try with all binary operations (+,-,*,/,**
) for the pair
of VE
objects and combinations of VE
-objects with numbers, e.g.
a + b
a + 1
1 - b
2 ** a
a +=1
b += a
Compare the difference for following expresssions:
a/a ## <--- HERE
a/VE(a) ## <--- HERE
a-a ## <--- HERE
a-VE(a) ## <--- HERE
Note that for trivial cases the correlations are propertly taken into account
from ostap.math.math_ve import *
sin(a)+cos(b)/tanh(b)
atan2(a,b)/log(a)