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Documentation

Minuit User's Guide

The user's guide provides necessary information about what the user is supposed to know before using Minuit. The first steps as well the documentation of the API and a source code example can be found there ( ps, pdf )  

Minuit Tutorial on Function Minimization

The tutorial on function minimization is taken from a presentation given by Fred James at the CERN School of Computing 1972 in Pertisau, Austria. This tutorial corresponds to Part II of the Minuit User's Guide ( ps, pdf )  

Minuit Interpretation of Errors

A general documentation of what Minuit thinks that errors are is documented in this third document (ps, pdf )

Old Manual of Fortran MINUIT

The html and postscript manual of the Fortran version of MINUIT.

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For documentation on how to check out the source code and start using Minuit see here.