// @(#)root/minuit2:$Id$
// Authors: M. Winkler, F. James, L. Moneta, A. Zsenei   2003-2005  

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 * Copyright (c) 2005 LCG ROOT Math team,  CERN/PH-SFT                *
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#ifndef ROOT_Minuit2_FunctionMinimizer
#define ROOT_Minuit2_FunctionMinimizer


#include "Minuit2/MnConfig.h"
#include <vector>

namespace ROOT {

   namespace Minuit2 {


class FCNBase;
class FCNGradientBase;
class FunctionMinimum;

//_____________________________________________________________________________________
/** base class for function minimizers; user may give FCN or FCN with Gradient,
    Parameter starting values and initial Error guess (sigma) (or "step size"),
    or Parameter starting values and initial covariance matrix; 
    covariance matrix is stored in Upper triangular packed storage format, 
    e.g. the Elements in the array are arranged like 
    {a(0,0), a(0,1), a(1,1), a(0,2), a(1,2), a(2,2), ...},
    the size is nrow*(nrow+1)/2 (see also MnUserCovariance.h);   
 */

class FunctionMinimizer {

public:
  
   virtual ~FunctionMinimizer() {}

   //starting values for parameters and errors
   virtual FunctionMinimum Minimize(const FCNBase&, const std::vector<double>& par, const std::vector<double>& err, unsigned int strategy, unsigned int maxfcn, double toler) const = 0; 

   //starting values for parameters and errors and FCN with Gradient
   virtual FunctionMinimum Minimize(const FCNGradientBase&, const std::vector<double>& par, const std::vector<double>& err, unsigned int strategy, unsigned int maxfcn, double toler) const = 0; 

   //starting values for parameters and covariance matrix
   virtual FunctionMinimum Minimize(const FCNBase&, const std::vector<double>& par, unsigned int nrow, const std::vector<double>& cov, unsigned int strategy, unsigned int maxfcn, double toler) const = 0; 

   //starting values for parameters and covariance matrix and FCN with Gradient
   virtual FunctionMinimum Minimize(const FCNGradientBase&, const std::vector<double>& par, unsigned int nrow, const std::vector<double>& cov, unsigned int strategy, unsigned int maxfcn, double toler) const = 0; 

};

  }  // namespace Minuit2

}  // namespace ROOT

#endif  // ROOT_Minuit2_FunctionMinimizer