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FCNGradientBase.h
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1// @(#)root/minuit2:$Id$
2// Authors: M. Winkler, F. James, L. Moneta, A. Zsenei 2003-2005
3
4/**********************************************************************
5 * *
6 * Copyright (c) 2005 LCG ROOT Math team, CERN/PH-SFT *
7 * *
8 **********************************************************************/
9
10#ifndef ROOT_Minuit2_FCNGradientBase
11#define ROOT_Minuit2_FCNGradientBase
12
13#include "Minuit2/FCNBase.h"
14
15namespace ROOT {
16
17 namespace Minuit2 {
18
19//________________________________________________________________________
20/** Extension of the FCNBase for providing the analytical Gradient of the
21 function. The user-Gradient is checked at the beginning of the
22 minimization against the Minuit internal numerical Gradient in order to
23 spot problems in the analytical Gradient calculation. This can be turned
24 off by overriding CheckGradient() to make it return "false".
25 The size of the output Gradient vector must be equal to the size of the
26 input Parameter vector.
27 Minuit does a check of the user Gradient at the beginning, if this is not
28 wanted the method "CheckGradient()" has to be overridden to return
29 "false".
30 */
31
32class FCNGradientBase : public FCNBase {
33
34public:
35
36 virtual ~FCNGradientBase() {}
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38 virtual std::vector<double> Gradient(const std::vector<double>&) const = 0;
39
40 virtual bool CheckGradient() const {return true;}
41
42};
43
44 } // namespace Minuit2
45
46} // namespace ROOT
47
48#endif // ROOT_Minuit2_FCNGradientBase
Interface (abstract class) defining the function to be minimized, which has to be implemented by the ...
Definition: FCNBase.h:47
Extension of the FCNBase for providing the analytical Gradient of the function.
virtual std::vector< double > Gradient(const std::vector< double > &) const =0
virtual bool CheckGradient() const
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