hep.aida
Interface IMeasurement

public interface IMeasurement

Basic user-level interface class for holding a single "measurement" with positive and negative errors (to allow for asymmetric errors). "IMeasurement" = "value" + "errorPlus" - "errorMinus"

Author:

The AIDA team (http://aida.freehep.org/)

Method Summary

double	errorMinus() Get the minus error of the IMeasurement.
double	errorPlus() Get the plus error of the IMeasurement.
void	setErrorMinus(double errorMinus) Set the minus error of the IMeasurement.
void	setErrorPlus(double errorPlus) Set the plus error of the IMeasurement.
void	setValue(double value) Set the value of the IMeasurement.
double	value() Get the value of the IMeasurement.

Method Detail

value

public double value()

Get the value of the IMeasurement.

Returns:

The value of the IMeasurement.

errorPlus

public double errorPlus()

Get the plus error of the IMeasurement.

Returns:

The plus error.

errorMinus

public double errorMinus()

Get the minus error of the IMeasurement.

Returns:

The minus error.

setValue

public void setValue(double value)
              throws IllegalArgumentException

Set the value of the IMeasurement.

Parameters:

value - The new value of the IMeasurement.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the value cannot be set.

setErrorPlus

public void setErrorPlus(double errorPlus)
                  throws IllegalArgumentException

Set the plus error of the IMeasurement.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the error cannot be set or it is negative.

setErrorMinus

public void setErrorMinus(double errorMinus)
                   throws IllegalArgumentException

Set the minus error of the IMeasurement.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the error cannot be set or it is negative.