save_staterror
- sherpa.ui.save_staterror(id, filename=None, clobber=False, sep=' ', comment='#', linebreak='\n', format='%g')
Save the statistical errors to a file.
If the statistical errors have not been set explicitly, then the values calculated by the statistic - such as
chi2gehrels
orchi2datavar
- will be used.- Parameters
id (int or str, optional) – The identifier for the data set to use. If not given then the default identifier is used, as returned by
get_default_id
.filename (str) – The name of the file to write the array to.
clobber (bool, optional) – If
filename
is notNone
, then this flag controls whether an existing file can be overwritten (True
) or if it raises an exception (False
, the default setting).sep (str, optional) – The separator character. The default is
' '
.comment (str, optional) – The comment character. The default is
'#'
.linebreak (str, optional) – Indicate a new line. The default is
'\n'
.format (str, optional) – The format used to write out the numeric values. The default is
'%g%'
.
- Raises
sherpa.utils.err.IOErr – If
filename
already exists andclobber
isFalse
.
See also
load_staterror
Load the statistical errors from a file.
save_error
Save the errors to a file.
save_syserror
Save the systematic errors to a file.
Notes
The function does not follow the normal Python standards for parameter use, since it is designed for easy interactive use. When called with a single un-named argument, it is taken to be the
filename
parameter. If given two un-named arguments, then they are interpreted as theid
andfilename
parameters, respectively. The remaining parameters are expected to be given as named arguments.The output file contains the columns
X
andSTAT_ERR
.Examples
Write out the statistical errors from the default data set to the file ‘errs.dat’.
>>> save_staterror('errs.dat')
Over-write the file it it already exists, and take the data from the data set “jet”:
>>> save_staterror('jet', 'err.out', clobber=True)