Likelihood Minimization

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Dear ROOT experts,

I’m trying to minimize the following -log-likelihood function where i have 6 parameters and 7 equations(N is the nbr of events), but the fit did not converge (it went to the same minimum every time). Here is the code that i’m using:

Likelihood
Likelihood434×198 12.2 KB

TMinuit.cc (21.4 KB)

Here is the data
https://cernbox.cern.ch/s/5TUeyDZSuWnPPmA

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This looks fishy to me:

      if (likelihood_event > 0) {
         // Accumulate the NLL
         nll += -std::log(likelihood_event);
      }

Indeed, you have cases where the likelihood_event is negative. How can this happen? Are there maybe even discrete jumps in your cross-section functions? Do you understand these functions well? It’s surprising that the likelihood can be negative, so maybe there is an implementation error?