unbinned_maximum_likelihood¶
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minkit.unbinned_maximum_likelihood(pdf, data, range='full')[source]¶ Definition of the unbinned maximum likelihood FCN. The given
PDFmust not be of extended type. The output is two times the logarithm of the likelihood, and is computed as\[\text{FCN} = -2 \times \left[\sum_{i=0}^N \log \frac{f(\vec{x}_i;\vec{\theta})}{A(\vec{\theta})}\right],\]where \(f(\vec{x}_i;\vec{\theta})\) is the function to minimize (without normalization), \(\vec{x}_i\) are the data points, \(\vec{\theta}\) are the function parameters and \(A(\vec{\theta})\) is the normalization value.