fitCircle.C File Reference

Detailed Description

Generate points distributed with some errors around a circle Fit a circle through the points and draw To run the script, do, eg

root > .x fitCircle.C   (10000 points by default)
root > .x fitCircle.C(100);  (with only 100 points
root > .x fitCircle.C(100000);  with ACLIC

Processing /mnt/build/workspace/root-makedoc-v608/rootspi/rdoc/src/v6-08-00-patches/tutorials/fit/fitCircle.C...

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Minimizer is Minuit / Migrad
MinFCN                    =      903.174
NDf                       =            0
Edm                       =  2.25067e-09
NCalls                    =           72
x0                        =   0.00667777   +/-   0.0141774   
y0                        =   0.00536467   +/-   0.0141954   
R                         =        3.995   +/-   0.0100048   

#include "TCanvas.h"
#include "TRandom3.h"
#include "TGraph.h"
#include "TMath.h"
#include "TArc.h"
#include "Fit/Fitter.h"

//____________________________________________________________________
void fitCircle(Int_t n=10000) {
   //generates n points around a circle and fit them
   TCanvas *c1 = new TCanvas("c1","c1",600,600);
   c1->SetGrid();
   gr = new TGraph(n);
   if (n> 999) gr->SetMarkerStyle(1);
   else        gr->SetMarkerStyle(3);
   TRandom3 r;
   Double_t x,y;
   for (Int_t i=0;i<n;i++) {
      r.Circle(x,y,r.Gaus(4,0.3));
      gr->SetPoint(i,x,y);
   }
   c1->DrawFrame(-5,-5,5,5);
   gr->Draw("p");


   auto chi2Function = [&](const Double_t *par) {
      //minimisation function computing the sum of squares of residuals
      // looping at the graph points
      Int_t np = gr->GetN();
      Double_t f = 0;
      Double_t *x = gr->GetX();
      Double_t *y = gr->GetY();
      for (Int_t i=0;i<np;i++) {
         Double_t u = x[i] - par[0];
         Double_t v = y[i] - par[1];
         Double_t dr = par[2] - std::sqrt(u*u+v*v);
         f += dr*dr;
      }
      return f;
   };

   // wrap chi2 funciton in a function object for the fit
   // 3 is the number of fit parameters (size of array par)
   ROOT::Math::Functor fcn(chi2Function,3);
   ROOT::Fit::Fitter  fitter;


   double pStart[3] = {0,0,1};
   fitter.SetFCN(fcn, pStart);
   fitter.Config().ParSettings(0).SetName("x0");
   fitter.Config().ParSettings(1).SetName("y0");
   fitter.Config().ParSettings(2).SetName("R");

   // do the fit 
   bool ok = fitter.FitFCN();
   if (!ok) {
      Error("line3Dfit","Line3D Fit failed");
   }   

   const ROOT::Fit::FitResult & result = fitter.Result();
   result.Print(std::cout);

   //Draw the circle on top of the points
   TArc *arc = new TArc(result.Parameter(0),result.Parameter(1),result.Parameter(2));
   arc->SetLineColor(kRed);
   arc->SetLineWidth(4);
   arc->Draw();
}

Author

Rene Brun

Definition in file fitCircle.C.