• DocumentCode
    748953
  • Title

    A generic toolkit for multivariate fitting designed with template metaprogramming

  • Author

    Fabozzi, Francesco ; Lista, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    INFNInst. Nazionale di Fisica Nucl.e, Univ. della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    1654
  • Lastpage
    1658
  • Abstract
    We present a toolkit developed to perform Unbinned Maximum Likelihood and Chi-square fits for parameters and yields estimates. The design of the toolkit is based on template metaprogramming in order to provide users with a generic interface to minimization tools. The default implementation is based on ROOT wrapper of MINUIT. Commonly used Probability Density Functions (PDFs) are provided with the toolkit and users may add custom PDFs for their own analyses. Description of fit models can be done using a package for symbolic manipulation of analytic functions.
  • Keywords
    mathematics computing; maximum likelihood estimation; object-oriented programming; parameter estimation; probability; software packages; statistical testing; Chi-square fits; ROOT wrapper; generic interface; generic toolkit; maximum likelihood estimation; object oriented programming; parameter estimation; probability density functions; software packages; template metaprogramming; Data analysis; Libraries; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monte Carlo methods; Packaging; Parameter estimation; Probability density function; Random number generation; Software packages; Yield estimation; Object oriented programming; parameter estimation; software packages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2005.856753
  • Filename
    1546479