Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Why YODA ?
  • The YODA Interpreter
• Data Analysis with YODA
  • Overview
  • Choosing the Input Mode
  • Information Supplied by the User
  • Results, Histograms and Cuts
• Data Format
  • Containerevents and Subevents
  • Accessing Data from YODA
  • YODA as a Filter Program
• First Steps with YODA
  • Preliminaries
  • A Sample Selector Database
  • A Sample Analysis Task
  • A Sample YODA Session
  • Producing Histograms
  • Viewing Histograms
• The Hoc Language
  • Arithmetic Expressions
  • Statements and Control Structures
  • Procedures and Functions
  • Input- and Output Functions
  • Histogramming Functions
    • Pseudo N-dimensional Histograms
  • Using Cuts
    • One-Dimensional Cuts
    • Two-dimensional Cuts
  • Communication between Hard and Soft Callbacks
  • String manipulation
• YODA tcl Commands
• Beyond the Hoc Language
  • Enhancing the Hoc Language
  • Implementing Hard Callbacks
    • A Sample Hard Callback
    • Subevent Handling
  • Writing Data with YODA
• Writing YODA-Style Data with Your Own Program
• Bibliography