[ROOT] User defined fitting function

From: Alexander Dietz (Alexander.Dietz@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 12:00:50 MEST


Hello Rooters,

I want to define myself a fitting function. But I do not know exactly what
the parameters of this function are for.
The type of this fitting function should be:

void MyFittingFunction(Int_t &npar, Double_t *gin, Double_t &f, Double_t
*u, Int_t flag);

Even when looking at TH::H1FitLikelihood or at TGraph::GraphFitChisquare I
do not understand every parameter.

Here what I understand or what I do not understand:

npar - this seems to be the number of parameters in my fitting function
gin  - I do not know what this means, it is not used in the two methods
mentioned above
f    - resulting value, seems to be a chi-square value
u    - a list of the npar parameters used in the fitting-fuction
flag - also an unknown value

So is there anybody who can explain all these parameters in more detail?
And explaining if the parameters need a value from the user of if they
give back a value?

Cheers

	Alexander Dietz



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