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Usage Examples

This wiki outlines some potential usages for NUISANCE.

If you haven't yet build the framework, do so ​here.

The card file

NUISANCE requires the user providing an input card file which species:

• The data sample(s) to compare to
• The generators and their file locations
• Any additional parameters that a sample might take (optional)
• A normalisation factor to apply uniformly to the MC (optional)

When the generator provides a reweighting interface, systematic parameters to reweight or fit can be provided. To do this we need:

• Name of the systematic parameter in the reweighting engine
• Current value of the parameter
• Minimum value of the parameter (optional)
• Maximum value of the parameter (optional)
• Starting value of the parameter (optional)
• Whether we FIX or FREE the parameter

All NUISANCE executables run based on the card file, except for when producing generator flat trees.

Comparisons

Tuning

Use the nuisfit executable for tuning.

The default fitter is ROOT's MIGRAD algorithm with hard limits. The executable accepts -f to change this behaviour.

The accepted arguments are specified in src/Routines/MinimizerRoutines.cxx and NUISANCE accepts all the currently implemented minimisations in ROOT::Minimizer.

fAllowedRoutines = ("Migrad,Simplex,Combined,"

"Brute,Fumili,ConjugateFR," "ConjugatePR,BFGS,BFGS2," "SteepDesc?,GSLSimAn,FixAtLim?,FixAtLimBreak?" "Chi2Scan1D,Chi2Scan2D,Contours,ErrorBands?");

Separating options with commas runs them in order, e.g. -f Simplex,Combined will first run a Simplex minimisation and then propagate those results to a Combined minimisation.

Fake data studies with nuismin

nuismin supports fake-data studies for validation purposes. Its aim is to study fitting biases and general troubleshooting of parameter responses.

Supply -d MC to the argument list to use the generator MC as fake-data. You can also specify reweight parameters for the fake-data in the card file by adding

fake_parameter PARAM_NAME PARAM_VALUE

to the card file to reweight the generator output to some variation and set that to the data. The data will now be some parameter variation of the MC, and (hopefully) the fit routine will converge on this parameter.

You can also specify -d FILE_LOCATION.root to set the fake-data to a MC histogram that has been previously produced through NUISANCE.

E.g. the output of a fit result to ANL_CC1ppip_XSec_1DEnu_nu will produce some output file MyOutput.root, containing a histogram ANL_CC1ppip_XSec_1DEnu_nu_MC. Feeding nuismin -d MyOutput.root in addition to a card file specifying sample ANL_CC1ppip_XSec_1DEnu_nu MY_GENERATOR:GENERATOR_FILE_LOCATION.root will find the _MC histogram in MyOutput.root and set it to the data in the new nuismin program.

Making a flat-tree from the generators