Re: [ROOT] exponential fit

From: Siguang Wang (siguang@mail.desy.de)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 13:28:50 MET


Hi,
Try a*(x-const)**(1/2) to see what would happen!
siguang

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Falk Karstens wrote:

> Dear Rooters!
>
> I have got the following problem with fitting a histogram.
> I want to use an exponetial fit like a*(x-const)^b where a and b are fit
> parameters. b is between 0 and 1. I couldn't see any result with such a
> fit. I tried the following:
>
> (1) a*sqrt(x-const)
> what worked fine, then I tried
>
> (2) a*(x-const)^(1/2)
> what DOES NOT give a fit.
>
> Actually I don't see any mathematical difference between (1) and (2).
> Where is my mistake?
>
> Yours
>
> Falk
>
> P.S.: I am running Root version 3.03/09   10 October 2002
> under i386_linux24 based on the SuSE 7.2.
>
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