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1 // @(#)root/minuit2:$Id$
2 // Authors: M. Winkler, F. James, L. Moneta, A. Zsenei 2003-2005
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4 /**********************************************************************
5  * *
6  * Copyright (c) 2005 LCG ROOT Math team, CERN/PH-SFT *
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8  **********************************************************************/
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10 #ifndef ROOT_Minuit2_MnLineSearch
11 #define ROOT_Minuit2_MnLineSearch
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13 #include "Minuit2/MnMatrix.h"
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15 namespace ROOT {
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17  namespace Minuit2 {
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20 class MnFcn;
21 class MinimumParameters;
22 class MnMachinePrecision;
23 class MnParabolaPoint;
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28 /**
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30 Implements a 1-dimensional minimization along a given direction
31 (i.e. quadratic interpolation) It is independent of the algorithm
32 that generates the direction vector. It brackets the 1-dimensional
33 Minimum and iterates to approach the real Minimum of the n-dimensional
34 function.
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37 @author Fred James and Matthias Winkler; comments added by Andras Zsenei
38 and Lorenzo Moneta
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40 @ingroup Minuit
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42 */
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47 class MnLineSearch {
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49 public:
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55  MnParabolaPoint operator()(const MnFcn&, const MinimumParameters&, const MnAlgebraicVector&, double, const MnMachinePrecision&, bool debug = false) const;
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57 #ifdef USE_OTHER_LS
58  MnParabolaPoint CubicSearch(const MnFcn&, const MinimumParameters&, const MnAlgebraicVector&, double, double, const MnMachinePrecision&, bool debug = false) const;
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60  MnParabolaPoint BrentSearch(const MnFcn&, const MinimumParameters&, const MnAlgebraicVector&, double, double, const MnMachinePrecision&, bool debug = false) const;
61 #endif
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63 private:
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65 };
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67  } // namespace Minuit2
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69 } // namespace ROOT
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71 #endif // ROOT_Minuit2_MnLineSearch
This namespace contains pre-defined functions to be used in conjuction with TExecutor::Map and TExecu...
Definition: StringConv.hxx:21
determines the relative floating point arithmetic precision.
A point of a parabola.
Wrapper class to FCNBase interface used internally by Minuit.
Definition: MnFcn.h:33
bool debug
Implements a 1-dimensional minimization along a given direction (i.e.
Definition: MnLineSearch.h:47
MnParabolaPoint operator()(const MnFcn &, const MinimumParameters &, const MnAlgebraicVector &, double, const MnMachinePrecision &, bool debug=false) const
Perform a line search from position defined by the vector st along the direction step, where the length of vector step gives the expected position of Minimum.