ROOT Tutorial

ROOT Tutorials at GridKa School 2013

This tutorial aims to provide a solid base to efficiently analyse data with ROOT. The main features of the !ROOT toolkit are presented: histogramming, data analysis using trees and advanced fitting techniques.

Material for the course

The slides of the lectures are available in electronic form from the school Agenda page.

For the exercise this Twiki page is available.

As complementary material, one can look at

ROOT Primer Guide, available in pdf, html or epub format. This introductory guide illustrates the main features of ROOT, relevant for the typical problems of data analysis: input and plotting of data from measurements and fitting of analytical functions.

ROOT user guide. It can be downloaded in various format (or only individual chatters) from here.

RooFit User Guide, available in [[1][pdf]] format. A coincide RooFit quick start guide is also available [[2][here]].