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Add support for one-sided uncertainties #163

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GraemeWatt opened this issue Apr 20, 2021 · 3 comments
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Add support for one-sided uncertainties #163

GraemeWatt opened this issue Apr 20, 2021 · 3 comments
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@GraemeWatt
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Related to #87 ("Add support for relative uncertainties"), the Uncertainties section of the HEPData submission documentation mentions that a one-sided uncertainty can be represented using an empty string, e.g. asymerror: {plus: '', minus: -0.3}, but this is not yet supported by hepdata_lib.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to use: {plus: 0, minus: -0.3}?

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Yes, I think mostly giving 0 should be fine. But it was a request from ATLAS a few years ago (see HEPData/hepdata#122) to support one-sided uncertainties as being undefined in one direction rather than strictly zero (see example table). I don't think many records have used this feature, but I thought that since HEPData supports it, then so should hepdata_lib. I wouldn't give it a high priority, but it might be worth implementing at the same time as percentage uncertainties (#87).

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Fixed by #169

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