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How do I go about using ListPlot (or anything that allows me to make a basic graph and plot an exponential decay curve on it later) with uncertainties?

As a minimal example:

dataHist5 = {{Around[1.5, 1.5], Around[77.8, 8.8]}, {Around[19.5, 1.5],
     Around[63.5, 8.0]}, {Around[37.5, 1.5], 
    Around[63.8, 8.0]}, {Around[91.5, 1.5], Around[42.4, 6.5]}}
ListPlot[dataHist5]

This returns an empty graph with axes of 0 to 1 in both directions (I can attach a picture if desired but there's nothing to see).

I have been following the instructions on this page: https://www.wolfram.com/language/12/core-visualization/listplot-with-uncertainty.html

Am I missing something or am I misusing this function? Thanks for any help!

Edit: Added missing commas. Apparently this works for version 12, and my problem is I am using version 11

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    $\begingroup$ Looks like there are two commas missing in your list. $\endgroup$
    – Rohit Namjoshi
    Feb 10, 2021 at 15:41
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    $\begingroup$ What version are you using? Around was introduced in version 12; in that version or newer your example works as expected once you have the commas to separate the value pairs, and not as you describe. Is Around black or blue in your MMA notebook? $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Feb 10, 2021 at 15:41
  • $\begingroup$ Around is blue. This is MMA 11, So that would explain that pretty nicely. Is there of way of doing this in version 11? If it helps, all my x uncertainties are 1.5, and all my y uncertainties are just sqrt(y) $\endgroup$
    – Epideme
    Feb 10, 2021 at 15:47

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Is missing some commas

dataHist5 = {{Around[1.5, 1.5],Around[77.8, 8.8]} , {Around[19.5, 1.5],Around[63.5,8.0]} , {Around[37.5, 1.5],Around[63.8, 8.0]} , {Around[91.5, 1.5], Around[42.4, 6.5]}}

ListPlot[dataHist5]

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    $\begingroup$ You can to try put {1.5 [PlusMinus] 1.5, 77.8 [PlusMinus] 8.8} rather than "{Around[1.5, 1.5], Around[77.8, 8.8]}", but I don´t know if it works in MMA 11 $\endgroup$
    – user740332
    Feb 10, 2021 at 16:04
  • $\begingroup$ It seems not to. It goes black rather than blue, but it doesn't seem to recognise it as an actual function. 1.5[PlusMinus] 1.5 for example tries to do 1.5*1.5. Thank you for the help by the way, and the follow up $\endgroup$
    – Epideme
    Feb 10, 2021 at 16:16
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    $\begingroup$ In V11 you can use the ErrorBarPlots package. $\endgroup$
    – Rohit Namjoshi
    Feb 10, 2021 at 16:46
  • $\begingroup$ Okay, this looks good and like what I might be after. Does MMa take into account the error bars when fitting a curve (as I'm hoping it does) or will it only fit around the points and just show error bars on top? $\endgroup$
    – Epideme
    Feb 10, 2021 at 16:51

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