Note that in general any and every smoothing operation reduces the information content of the data and its ability to reveal structure. Also, many of the smoothing algorithms change the data point values at vertices, so change the data prior to analysis.
Hence in general avoid unless you know exactly the physical cause requiring smoothing.
Best wishes
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1. Re: The difference of EXAFS oscillation when using Athena and
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:47:20 +0900
From: "Yuji Mahara"
To: "'XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit'"
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] The difference of EXAFS oscillation when using
Athena and when using Larch
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Dear Matt
Thank you for your reply.
I confirmed that chi (k) becomes smooth by the Savitzky-Goley method by doing the attached lar file.
I will try on various conditions from now.
I may also ask if there is something I do not understand.
Thank you for your help again!
Bests,
Yuji Mahara
From: Ifeffit [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Matt Newville
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To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] The difference of EXAFS oscillation when using Athena and when using Larch
Hi Yuji,
The attached larch script (a modification of your script but note: not python, so you may have to add a bunch of '_larch=mylarch' arguments) to show the effects of smoothing with Savitzky-Golay and of interpolating onto a "classic XAFS energy grid". You might want to play around with this different options. It definitely seems that none of these methods are systematically over-smoothing the data and reducing the amplitudes of the oscillations -- one more reason to use Larch instead of Ifeffit. But it also seems like smoothing this data with a Savitzky-Golay fitler is helpful.
Also attached are plots showing k- and R-space generated from the attached script.
--Matt
