On 03/30/2017 11:07 PM, dcnguyen wrote:

I have an issue of a discrepancy between values of independent points calculated by Demeter 0.9.25, on Windows 7, shown on the path page and the one presented on the log file after a fit to data. For an example, I use the file named FeS2_final.fpj that you have in your computer, and choose an R-range 1.2-4.2 A, and a k-range 3.00-14.80. Then the N value is calculated by Artemis and shown as 22.54 after clicking "shown Nidp" from the "Data" tab on the path page. The value is consistent with the formula N=(2/pi)*delta_K*delta_R. However, after I click the "Fit" button and look at the Log file, the Nidp is shown as 22.0312500. My question is what causes this discrepancy. When publishing data, which number shoud be reported? Thank you.

When you select the item from the Data menu, Artemis computes Nidp from the values you provide for kmin, kmax, rmin, and rmax. At the end of the fit, Artemis reports Nidp computed using the actual data. In your case, you asked for the fit to be done between 1.2 and 4.2 -- a span of 3.0 Ang. The actual data range used in the fit is from 1.2271846 to 4.1724277, a span of about 2.945 Ang, which is about 2% smaller than what you asked for. Hence the value for Nidp reported after the fit is about 2% smaller than what the Data menu entry computes. When doing a discrete Fourier transform, the size of the data array in k and the grid spacing in k sets the grid spacing in R. After background removal, the data are interpolated on a grid of 0.05 invAng and put into a zero-padded array of length 2048. The grid in R is set by the Fourier transform to be PI / (array_size*k-grid). Plug in the numbers and you get that the R grid is close 0.0307 Ang. The FT is done using data that fall /within/ the values of Rmin and Rmax you provide. So, 1.2 and 4.2 are not points on the R grid, therefore the value computed using the Data menu entry is even more approximate that the after-fit value, which itself is only a crude approximation of the information content of the data. HTH, B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II Building 743, Room 114 Upton NY, 11973 Homepage: http://bruceravel.github.io/home/ Software: https://github.com/bruceravel Demeter: http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/