Hi all,
I have a problem with fitting histograms with polynomial pdfs in RooFit.
While it’s trivial with the method TH1F.Fit(“pol*”) (it takes 1 second)
with RooFit nothing converges!!!
I have tried with RooPolynomial class (that dosn’t allow you to fit the constant term) but it was a disaster.
So I have written a new pdf that reproduces the standard polynomial, with the constant term. Namely the core is (e.g. for a grade 4 pol):
Double_t RooMyPol4::evaluate() const
{
// ENTER EXPRESSION IN TERMS OF VARIABLE ARGUMENTS HERE
if( a0+a1MZ+a2MZMZ+a3MZMZMZ+a4MZMZMZMZ >= 0)
return a0+a1MZ+a2MZMZ+a3MZMZMZ+a4MZMZMZMZ ;
else return 0 ;
}
but nothing converges too!!
Even leaving as free parameter only the normalization, it doesn’t work!!!
I get a lot of messages like:
[#0] WARNING:Minization – RooFitGlue: Minimized function has error status.
Returning maximum FCN so far (-594542) to force MIGRAD to back out of this region. Error log follows
Parameter values: a0=16829.6, a1=-165.069, nsig=295891
RooAddPdf::sum[ nsig * myPol ]
getLogVal() top-level p.d.f evaluates to zero @ !refCoefNorm=(mZ = 51), !pdfs=(myPol = 8411.06/69014.2), !coefficients=(nsig = 295891 +/- 1027.99)
What does it mean???
Simply, is it possible to fit with polynomials in RooFit??? I’m losing hopes…
Cheers
Marco