Binomial fitter for the division of two histograms.

Use when you need to calculate a selection's efficiency from two histograms, one containing all entries, and one containing the subset of these entries that pass the selection, and when you have a parametrization available for the efficiency as a function of the variable(s) under consideration.

A very common problem when estimating efficiencies is that of error estimation: when no other information is available than the total number of events N and the selected number n, the best estimate for the selection efficiency p is n/N. Standard binomial statistics dictates that the uncertainty (this presupposes sufficiently high statistics that an approximation by a normal distribution is reasonable) on p, given N, is

\[ \sqrt{\frac{p(1-p)}{N}} \]

However, when p is estimated as n/N, fluctuations from the true p to its estimate become important, especially for low numbers of events, and giving rise to biased results.

When fitting a parametrized efficiency, these problems can largely be overcome, as a hypothesized true efficiency is available by construction. Even so, simply using the corresponding uncertainty still presupposes that Gaussian errors yields a reasonable approximation. When using, instead of binned efficiency histograms, the original numerator and denominator histograms, a binned maximum likelihood can be constructed as the product of bin-by-bin binomial probabilities to select n out of N events. Assuming that a correct parametrization of the efficiency is provided, this construction in general yields less biased results (and is much less sensitive to binning details).

A generic use of this method is given below (note that the method works for 2D and 3D histograms as well):

{
    TH1* denominator;              // denominator histogram
    TH1* numerator;                // corresponding numerator histogram
    TF1* eff;                      // efficiency parametrization
    ....                           // set step sizes and initial parameter
    ....                           //   values for the fit function
    ....                           // possibly also set ranges, see TF1::SetRange()
    TBinomialEfficiencyFitter* f = new TBinomialEfficiencyFitter(
                                 numerator, denominator);
    Int_t status = f->Fit(eff, "I");
    if (status == 0) {
      // if the fit was successful, display bin-by-bin efficiencies
      // as well as the result of the fit
      numerator->Sumw2();
      TH1* hEff = dynamic_cast<TH1*>(numerator->Clone("heff"));
      hEff->Divide(hEff, denominator, 1.0, 1.0, "B");
      hEff->Draw("E");
      eff->Draw("same");
    }
}

Note that this method cannot be expected to yield reliable results when using weighted histograms (because the likelihood computation will be incorrect).

Definition at line 46 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.h.

Public Member Functions
	TBinomialEfficiencyFitter ()
	default constructor More...

	TBinomialEfficiencyFitter (const TH1 numerator, const TH1 denominator)
	Constructor. More...

virtual	~TBinomialEfficiencyFitter ()
	destructor More...

Double_t	EvaluateFCN (const Double_t *par)

TFitResultPtr	Fit (TF1 f1, Option_t option="")
	Carry out the fit of the given function to the given histograms. More...

ROOT::Fit::Fitter *	GetFitter ()
	Provide access to the underlying fitter object. More...

void	Set (const TH1 numerator, const TH1 denominator)
	Initialize with a new set of inputs. More...

void	SetPrecision (Double_t epsilon)
	Set the required integration precision, see TF1::Integral() More...

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Protected Attributes
Bool_t	fAverage

TH1 *	fDenominator

Double_t	fEpsilon

Bool_t	fFitDone

ROOT::Fit::Fitter *	fFitter

TF1 *	fFunction

TH1 *	fNumerator

Bool_t	fRange

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void	ComputeFCN (Double_t &f, const Double_t *par)
	Compute the likelihood. More...

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#include <TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.h>

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ TBinomialEfficiencyFitter() [1/2]

TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::TBinomialEfficiencyFitter ( )

default constructor

Definition at line 101 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.cxx.

◆ TBinomialEfficiencyFitter() [2/2]

TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::TBinomialEfficiencyFitter	(	const TH1 *	numerator,
		const TH1 *	denominator
	)

Constructor.

Note that no objects are copied, so it is up to the user to ensure that the histogram pointers remain valid.

Both histograms need to be "consistent". This is not checked here, but in TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::Fit().

Definition at line 121 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.cxx.

◆ ~TBinomialEfficiencyFitter()

TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::~TBinomialEfficiencyFitter ( )

virtual

destructor

Definition at line 131 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.cxx.

Member Function Documentation

◆ ComputeFCN()

void TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::ComputeFCN	(	Double_t &	f,
		const Double_t *	par
	)

private

Compute the likelihood.

Definition at line 320 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.cxx.

◆ EvaluateFCN()

Double_t TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::EvaluateFCN ( const Double_t * par )

inline

Definition at line 71 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.h.

◆ Fit()

TFitResultPtr TBinomialEfficiencyFitter::Fit	(	TF1 *	f1,
		Option_t *	option = `""`
	)

Carry out the fit of the given function to the given histograms.

If option "I" is used, the fit function will be averaged over the bin (the default is to evaluate it simply at the bin center).

If option "R" is used, the fit range will be taken from the fit function (the default is to use the entire histogram).

If option "S" a TFitResult object is returned and it can be used to obtain additional fit information, like covariance or correlation matrix.

Note that all parameter values, limits, and step sizes are copied from the input fit function f1 (so they should be set before calling this method. This is particularly relevant for the step sizes, taken to be the "error" set on input, as a null step size usually fixes the corresponding parameter. That is protected against, but in such cases an arbitrary starting step size will be used, and the reliability of the fit should be questioned). If parameters are to be fixed, this should be done by specifying non-null parameter limits, with lower limits larger than upper limits.

On output, f1 contains the fitted parameters and errors, as well as the number of degrees of freedom, and the goodness-of-fit estimator as given by S. Baker and R. Cousins, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A221 (1984) 437.

Definition at line 195 of file TBinomialEfficiencyFitter.cxx.