AIDA Users Guide

After a brief introduction to AIDA, its purpose and its philosophy, we present examples showing how to use each major component of the AIDA toolkit.

Contents

• Introduction
  • What is AIDA?
  • An Example AIDA program
• Overview of AIDA Classes
  • Factories
  • Histograms
  • Histogram arithmetic
  • Profiles
  • Create an IProfile
  • Fill an IProfile
  • Fit and Plot an IProfile
  • Clouds
  • Create an ICloud
  • Filling an ICloud
  • DataPointSets
  • Create and Fill an IDataPointSet
  • Create, Fill and Fit an IDataPointSet
  • Create an IDataPointSet from another AIDA data source
  • Tuples
  • Create an ITuple
  • Filling an retrieve data from an ITuple
  • Use of IFilters and IEvaluators
  • Create Chained and Filtered ITuples
  • ITuple with complex structure
  • IO and Trees
  • Directories
  • Storing and Retrieving Trees (and their contents)
  • Advanced Tree Capabilites
  • Plotting
    • Using Styles
  • Functions
  • Fitter
  • Simple Chi2 fit to an Histogram
  • Simple binned and unbinned fits
  • Control fit parameters and set constraints
  • Scans and contours