[Ifeffit] Re: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4

[Bruce Ravel]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:02 pm, Grant Bunker wrote:

> I think the easiest thing to implement in feffit however would be
> simply to do a series of minimizations with (say, 1000) random
> starting points in the parameter space. This would just entail
> wrapping the minimization in a loop, and adding a way to summarize
> the results.
> 
> Minimizations starting at differentpoints may end up in the same or
> different "attractors". If those corresponded to bad fits, throw
> them out. If they are adequate fits, keep them. Quite possibly more
> than one attractor could fit the data adequately. A cluster analysis
> of the results should indicate whether different solutions are
> equivalent (belong to the same attractor) or not.

If Norbert or anyone else is interested in playing around with what
Grant suggests (or even one of the admitedly less-clever raster
schemes that I suggested), I have a suggestion.

One thing that Artemis will do for you is to write a script of ifeffit
commands for doing a fit using the data and feff calculation currently
imported.  See the second item in the Edit menu.  This script can be
saved to a file and used as the basis for, say, a perl or python
script to do any of the explorations of parameter space that have been
discussed today.

Here are some excellent notes from Matt explaining how to call ifeffit
from perl, python, or C:
  http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/refman/node106.html
This is exactly what Sam and I do in our programs.  And please do
report back to this list.  We'd love to know what you find!

B



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