RE: Minuit2

Thank Lorenzo,

In fact, I was wrong because the NFcn returned was the one of Hesse and not of the minimization.

By the way, I set maxfcn, but Minimize has a strange behavior. 1) It does not seem to stop when maxfcn is reach. 2) If it passes over, then it return: Minuit did not converge

What I would like is to really stop the minimization at maxfcn.

Regards.

>
> Hello Patrick,
>
> UserState ().NFcn () or FunctionMinimum::NFcn() returns the total number of function calls
> (the one that is also printed at the end of the minimization) and I guess is the one you want to have.
>
> States().size() is the total number of iterations performed by Migrad. For each iteration, new parameter values are found, new values of the gradient are calculated and the Hessian is updated using this information. Therefore for each iteration you have few function calls depending on the number of parameters (at least 2 * NumberOfParams )
>
> Best Regards
>
> Lorenzo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk_at_root.cern.ch on behalf of Patrick Dupre
> Sent: Thu 9/3/2009 11:36 PM
> To: roottalk_at_root.cern.ch
> Subject: [ROOT] Minuit2
>
> Hello,
>
> How do I get the number of iterations run by Minuit2 ?
> I tried:
> 1) UserState ().NFcn () ;
> but it return 62.
> 2) States().size () ;
>
> I need to get:
> # of function calls: 75
>
> Thank for your help.
>
>

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