Differences between values and their fitting function

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I have data and I made fitting function with TF1 class. And I want to subtract each of values from fitting function. I think that

  1. Get y value of fitting function.
  2. Subtract each of values from y value of fitting function.
    But I don’t know how I get the y value and this method is inefficient.
    And I feel that there is a function which find this. Is there any function which I am finding?
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What you’re after is called “residuals”. See for instance https://root.cern/doc/master/ratioplot2_8C.html Does that do what you’re after?

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Are the residuals used in case of histogram? I want to find residuals between function and fitting function. But, I could find only histograms in the web.

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You can simply iterate over the histogram bins, use hist->GetBinContent(ibin), and subtract the fit functions func->Eval(hist->GetBinCenter(ibin)). Does that do it? And yes, the graph in the tutorial’s lower plot shows the residuals.

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