On Monday 19 September 2005 07:31, Stefano Ciurli wrote:
Hi Matt,
Thinking about problems. You once told me that:
Fitting in unfiltered k-space also gives erroneous R-factors, as was recently discussed here.
would you give me a direction to the discussion about this point that I can read?
Stefano, I don't know if there is an explicit reference. Just consider the functional form of the R-factor. It's essentially a measure of misfit -- a quantitative measure of how much the red line falls on top of the blue line. Consider a first shell fit to copper metal. In R space and under the first peak, the red line falls right on top of the blue line and the R-factor is small. In k space, the red line only has the frequencies of the first shell while the data has all frequencies. In this space, the red line doesn't look much like the blue line, even for an excellent fit. Consequently the R factor is quite large. That is, I think, what Matt meant by "erroneous" -- not that I can claim to speak for him! ;-) B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov -or- ravel@phys.washington.edu Environmental Research Division, Bldg 203, Room E165 Argonne National Laboratory phone: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/