Re: Using TMinuit

From: Faouzi Attallah (attallah@clri6g.gsi.de)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 11:47:51 MET


Hi Colin,

Could you provide your macro to have a quick look ....

Cheers,

Faouzi

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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, C. Bernet wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a new root adept (< 1week). Everything worked fine till i try to use
> TMinuit to fit in a subrange of a 2d histogram.  So I just copied and
> modified the tutorial
> http://root.cern.ch/root/html/examples/Ifit.C.html.
> 
> When I use my macro, or the tutorial macro as it is given, I get this
> message :
> 
>  FCN=0 FROM MIGRAD    STATUS=INITIATE      149 CALLS         150 TOTAL
>                      EDM= unknown      STRATEGY= 1      NO ERROR MATRIX
>   EXT PARAMETER               CURRENT GUESS       STEP         FIRST
>   NO.   NAME      VALUE            ERROR          SIZE      DERIVATIVE
> ....
>  MIGRAD MINIMIZATION HAS CONVERGED.
>  MIGRAD WILL VERIFY CONVERGENCE AND ERROR MATRIX.
> 
> then :
> 
>  MINUIT WARNING IN HESSE
>  ==============
>   MNHESS FAILS AND WILL RETURN DIAGONAL MATRIX.
> ...
> 
> If you look at the current parameters using mnpout, you see that they
> are equal to their starting values, and that errors are set to 1.41421.
> 
>     Thanks a lot if you can help me !
> 
>             Colin
> 
> 
> 



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