Re: Fitting/minimizing Python functions.

From: Sebastien Binet <binet_at_cern.ch>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:04:53 +0100


hi,

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Amnon Harel <amnon.harel_at_cern.ch> wrote:
> Hi Brett,
>
> For what it's worth, I'm just going through the process Axel is describing right now :-)
>
> This is basically a bet on Minuit working well for your problem.
> The last 40 years or so have shown that to be an amazingly good bet.
> There are many more fitting algorithms available in python from scipy.
> My colleagues and myself have had mixed results from them, so I'm going
> back to Minuit, and re-coding the low-level fitting code in C++.

it would be quite interesting to know what were these issues with scipy.

-s Received on Wed Feb 29 2012 - 06:05:02 CET

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