HypoTestCalculator.h

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// @(#)root/roostats:$Id$
// Author: Kyle Cranmer, Lorenzo Moneta, Gregory Schott, Wouter Verkerke
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#ifndef ROOSTATS_HypoTestCalculator
#define ROOSTATS_HypoTestCalculator
 
#include "Rtypes.h"
 
// class RooAbsPdf;
class RooAbsData;
// class RooArgSet;
class RooWorkspace;
 
 
namespace RooStats {
 
   class HypoTestResult;
 
   class ModelConfig;
 
 
/** \class HypoTestCalculator
    \ingroup Roostats
 
HypoTestCalculator is an interface class for a tools which produce RooStats
HypoTestResults. The interface currently assumes that any hypothesis test
calculator can be configured by specifying:
 
  - a model for the null,
  - a model for the alternate,
  - a data set,
  - a set of parameters of which specify the null (including values and const/non-const status), and
  - a set of parameters of which specify the alternate (including values and const/non-const status).
 
The interface allows one to pass the model, data, and parameters via a workspace
and then specify them with names. The interface will be extended so that one does
not need to use a workspace.
 
After configuring the calculator, one only needs to ask GetHypoTest, which will
return a HypoTestResult pointer.
 
The concrete implementations of this interface should deal with the details of
how the nuisance parameters are dealt with (eg. integration vs. profiling) and
which test-statistic is used (perhaps this should be added to the interface).
 
The motivation for this interface is that we hope to be able to specify the
problem in a common way for several concrete calculators.
 
*/
 
 
   class HypoTestCalculator {
 
   public:
 
 
      virtual ~HypoTestCalculator() {}
 
      /// main interface to get a HypoTestResult, pure virtual
      virtual HypoTestResult* GetHypoTest() const = 0;
 
      /// Set a common model for both the null and alternate, add to the workspace if not already there
      virtual void SetCommonModel(const ModelConfig& model) {
         SetNullModel(model);
         SetAlternateModel(model);
      }
 
      /// Set the model for the null hypothesis
      virtual void SetNullModel(const ModelConfig& model) = 0;
      /// Set the model for the alternate hypothesis
      virtual void SetAlternateModel(const ModelConfig& model) = 0;
      /// Set the DataSet
      virtual void SetData(RooAbsData& data) = 0;
 
 
   protected:
      ClassDef(HypoTestCalculator,1)  // Interface for tools doing hypothesis tests
   };
}
 
 
#endif