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Contents
Foreword
What Minuit is intended to do.
What Minuit is not intended to do.
Further remarks.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Minuit Basic Concepts.
The Organization of Minuit.
Internal and External Parameters.
Minuit Strategy.
Parameter Errors.
The Error Matrix.
MINOS Errors.
CONtour
MNContour
Minuit Installation.
Minuit Releases.
Minuit Versions.
Interference with Other Packages
Floating-point Precision
How to Use Minuit
The Function FCN.
Running Minuit in Data-driven Mode.
Note
Batch and interactive running.
Minuit Commands
List of Minuit commands
How to get the right answer from Minuit.
Which Minimizer to Use.
MIGRAD
MINIMIZE
SCAN
SEEK
Parameter Limits
Getting the Right Minimum with Limits.
Getting the right parameter errors with limits.
Fixing and Releasing Parameters
Interpretation of Parameter Errors
Statistical Interpretation.
The Reliability of Minuit Error Estimates.
Additional Trouble-shooting
A complete example
A data-driven fit
Interpretation of the errors on parameters as given by Minuit
Function normalization and [SET ERRordef]ERROR DEF
Chi-square normalization
Likelihood normalization
Non-linearities: [MIGrad]MIGRAD versus [HESse]HESSE versus [MINos]MINOS
Errors printed by Minuit
Errors after [MIGrad]MIGRAD (or [MINImize]MINIMIZE)
Errors after [HESse]HESSE
Errors by [MINos]MINOS
Multiparameter errors
The Error Matrix
[MINos]MINOS with several free Parameters
Probability content of confidence regions
References
Index
Janne Saarela
Mon Apr 3 15:36:46 METDST 1995