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- As far as your computer program is concerned, one can handle
and likelihood with same program.
- They just differ in calculational complexity N.
- In , N is the number of ``bins.''
- In likelihood, N is number of events.
- My old fitting programs
- Manxcat---Marquardt's Method
- ``Feefoefum's Well Nigh Perfect Fit'' using
eigenvalue method
- see later for methods
- were designed to interface with either or maximum
likelihood.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu