The Professor toolkit

Professor is a tool which creates parameterisations of very CPU-expensive functions, and uses them for tasks which require a lot of sampling – such as optimising input parameters or scanning a large parameter volume. The system was developed for (and is still mostly used in) tuning of Monte Carlo event generators for particle physics, but the method is very generally useful.

Contents:

• Installing the Professor system
  • Required packages
  • Installing Professor
  • Programmable completion in bash
• Professor tutorial
  • Creating parameterisations
  • Tuning to reference data
• User guide
  • Main programs
  • Helper programs
  • File formats
  • Interactive usage
• Library Reference Documentation
  • professor.data
  • professor.params
  • professor.fitfunctions
  • professor.interpolation
  • professor.minimize
  • professor.histo
  • professor.tools
• Professor TODO
  • For 1.3.1:
  • For 1.4.0:

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Tools for plotting

See docs in Rivet for

• compare-histos
• make-plots