[Ifeffit] Re: Ifeffit Digest, Vol 1, Issue 121

Irit Sagi cssagi at wisemail.weizmann.ac.il
Thu Mar 13 12:56:33 CST 2003


Hi Grant
I read your e-mails regarding IFEFFIT and I could not help myself to ask how are you doing and how are things. 
We are all OK here in Israel, as much as we can of course. I am pregnant with my third child and I am due by the end of the month. Besides this, we are well prepared for the USA-Iraq war. In fact we are expecting it to start on Monday.
I was invited to give a talk in the APS workshop this year but I will not be able to make due to the new baby.
I hope that everything is OK with you and your family. 
All the best, Irit.

Dr. Irit Sagi
Department of structural Biology
The Weizmann Institute of Science
ISRAEL
Tel/Fax 972-8-9342130
e-mail: irit.sagi at weizmann.ac.il

>>> bunker at biocat1.phys.iit.edu 03/13/03 08:38pm >>>
Matt - it might be sensible to just add a new function to do the
rebinning i.e. map mu(E)->mu'(E') on resampled grid (mu data around the
edge could be left unchanged). People could call the function ('rebin"?)
only they needed it; subsequent routines could be kept as they
are now. Anyone who doesn't like the rebinning wouldn't be obligated to
use it.

thanks - grant

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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:52:45 -0600
> From: "Kelly, Shelly D." <SKelly at anl.gov>
> Subject: RE: [Ifeffit] Rebinning
> To: "'XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit'"
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> Hello All,
>
> There seems to be a lot of interest in Rebinning data.  I have a perl script
> that
> I've written to do the same thing.  I thought it might be of interest.
>
> Shelly
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Newville, Matthew G.
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:08 PM
> > To: Carlo.Segre at iit.edu; XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
> > Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Rebinning
> >
> >
> > Hi Carlo,
> >
> > Thanks!!  That's wonderful.  It seems like this should be an
> > option in spline() and bkg_cl(), and possibly in pre_edge().  I
> > admit to being still a little confused by the goal of the
> > rebinning, especially with respect to loss of resolution.  It
> > seems like to use this script, you need to do two things:
> >   1. select an E0.   The data will be put at energies that
> >      will give an even k-grid with this e0.  I think it's
> >      inevitable that if e0 changes, you might want to re-bin.
> >
> >   2. assume that the k-grid is small enough that the
> >      measurements at independent energies are within the
> >      acceptable energy resolution that they can be
> >      simply summed.
> >
> > Is that right?
> >
> > Would it be OK with you (and everyone else) to have a weighted
> > average replace the boxcar average?  For example, at k=12,
> > [E(k+0.05) - E(k)] = 5eV, which is larger than normal energy
> > resolutions, so the boxcar average might wash out the high-k
> > EXAFS, no?  It might be better to convolve the spectra with a
> > lorenztian reflecting the incident energy resolution (probably
> > defaulting to 1eV).  Does that seem OK or is there something eles
> > going on?
> >
> > Anyway, thanks!!
> >
> > --Matt
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:02:37 -0500
> From: Bruce Ravel <ravel at phys.washington.edu>
> Subject: [Ifeffit] Rebinning
> To: "'XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit'"
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> Hey folks,
>
> As an interface developer, I have to keep a broad perspective.  It
> seems to me that, when Athena gets a rebinning capability, it should
> give the user a choice between boxcar and convolution (and whatever
> other technique someone makes a reasonable case for), thus I would
> want to implement something like what Ken or Shelly wrote as well as
> an interface to ifeffit's built-in convolution thingie.
>
> To address one of Matt's points, I reckon I'll put a flag in Athena's
> group object that would get set whenever E0 changes.  That way Athena
> could automagically rebin the data before background removal for any
> data group for which rebinning has been requested.  That combined with
> some of Athena's other automation features should make handling large
> amounts of qexafs data a breeze.
>
> As for which approach is appropriate, Grant pointed out that
> preserving resolution at high k is not completely necessary.  I agree,
> but only with the caveat that your measurement is of a single edge.
> One could imagine using quick measurement techniques to measure two
> different, nearby edges --- perhaps for a dichroism experiment,
> perhaps simply to measure two exafs spectra.  In that case, Matt's
> concern about boxcar is quite valid.   That's not rocket science, but
> it would be easy to forget at the beamline at 3 in the morning ;-)
>
> Regards,
> B
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:19:09 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Carlo U. Segre" <segre at iit.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Rebinning
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> Matt:
>
> I think that I didn't explain clearly.  First of all, I misused the name
> boxcar.  In the most stringent of definitions we are not doing a boxcar
> average because we make no assumptions of where the energy position is to
> be.  Let me try to restate it.
>
> 1. There is no effort to put the data on a uniform energy grid.  The date
> from a continuous scan is never on an even grid anyway, just
> approximately.  This is because, at least at MR-CAT, we just count the
> encoder steps and use that to determine the angular position and thence
> the energy.  Since we can only se our monochromator to move at a uniform
> angular speed (and even the spacing in angle is not always perfectly
> uniform), the energy spacing will have a siusoidal dependence at the best.
>
> 2. There is no effort to put the data on an even grid in k-space.  The
> purpose of the delta-k is to set the window over which we average the
> data.  The algorithm determines which points in energy space are within
> the desired box in k-space and then it finds the center of mass of the
> points by averaging the counts AND averaging the energy too.
>
> The resultant spectrum will have datapoints which have the desired density
> but which will not be on any kind of regular grid.  The idea is to let the
> analysis programs such as IFEFFIT interpolate and regrid.
>
> Carlo
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Matt Newville wrote:
>
> >Hi Carlo,
> >
> >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> >
> >> Matt:
> >>
> >> Jeff Terry mentioned that perhaps I did not explain myself adequately with
> >> the last message.
> >>
> >> The algorithm averages BOTH counts and Energy.  We do not just place the
> >> average number of counts at the center of the bin.  Because of this, there
> >> should be no distortion and no need to weight.
> >>
> >> Carlo
> >
> >I'm not sure I see that at first glance, but I'll take your word
> >for it.  That isn't what I'm concerned about.
> >
> >Let me explain where I get stuck: let's say you have data
> >collected in energy steps of 0.25eV -- could be QEXAFS, could be
> >step scan.  For the sake of argument, lets' set the energy
> >resolution to 1eV.  You have to get the data on the 0.25eV grid
> >to an even k-grid for the analysis (at least in ifeffit).  For
> >the sake of argument, we'll say dk = 0.05Ang^-1, No matter what
> >the details are, you need to get values of mu(E) for the data
> >onto a gridded set E={E_i}.
> >
> >At k=4, E~=61.0, and k=0.05 corresponds to 1.5eV.  A boxcar
> >average will average the original data between 60.25 and 61.75
> >and call that the new data for E=61.  Seems reasonable, though
> >giving equal weight to the data at 61.0 and 61.75 could be
> >questioned for 1eV resolution.
> >
> >At k=16, E~=975.0 eV, k=0.05 corresponds to 6eV.  So here, you
> >average of data between E=972.0 and 978.0eV and call that the
> >data for E=975.0eV.  Giving equal weight to the data at 972.0 and
> >975.0 when the resolution is 1eV is what worries me.  The simple
> >average of mu(E) between 972.0 and 978.0 is definitely not the
> >same as mu(E) at E=975.0. It would probably be better to average
> >the original data between 974.0 and 976.0 for the new data at
> >975.0, and might be preferrable to just do a convolution with a
> >1eV point spread function for all the data.
> >
> >Certainly, if you were to re-bin data collected in 0.25eV steps
> >to a grid of 10eV there would be real problems.  By 'using all
> >the data', one can use too much data and spoil the resolution.
> >
> >I don't claim that the boxcar average is wrong, or that
> >convolution is definitely the right thing to do, just that I'm
> >confused by this.
> >
> >--Matt
> >
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> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:34:27 -0600 (CST)
> From: Matt Newville <newville at cars.uchicago.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Rebinning
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> Carlo, Grant, Shelly, Bruce,
>
> Thanks!  Shelly's script eems to be similar to what Carlo, Ken,
> and Grant have done as well, at least as far as how the rolling
> average is done. I think Sam Webb mentioned he had used a similar
> technique for some of his QEXAFS data too.  So the consensus
> definitely seems to be that the moving simple average over a
> limited energy/k range is 'good enough' when converting to
> k-space.  I agree with that: it's certainly no worse than what
> happens in ifeffit/autobk now.
>
> I'm sort of uncomfortable with automatically rebinning the mu(E)
> data for it's own sake, because I think it's too easy to lose
> resolution of the data.  I think no one was proposing that -- the
> discussion seems only how to convert data on a fine energy grid
> to k -- but I want to make sure.  At any rate, the conversion of
> mu(E) to chi(k) seems to be the part that ifeffit should be
> concerned with.  I propose these behaviors for ifeffit commands:
>
>  - read_data() should leave the QEXAFS energy values intact,
>    optionally sorting data.  That is the current behavior.
>
>  - spline() and bkg_cl() [the commands that convert mu(E) to
>    chi(k)] need to work with both 'step scan' and 'continuous'
>    energy data.  That complicates things a little, but I think it
>    means they should create chi(k) on the even k-grid like this:
>
>    At each k-point (i*kgrid for i=0,Npts), if there are more than
>    2 data points in the range (k - kgrid/2, k + kgrid/2], average
>    all points in that region.  If there are fewer than 2 points
>    in that range, do a 3-point interpolation using the 2
>    surrounding points and the next nearest point.  Both of these
>    averages may spoil resolution somewhat, but like Grant says,
>    the kgrid=0.05 is pretty conservative anyway.
>
> I believe this approach will handle QEXAFS data about as well and
> as simply as possible, and needs no additional flags or settings.
> The rolling average will *ALWAYS* be done by spline() and
> bkg_cl() if and where it is needed. That will make spline() a
> little slower, but only because it would be using more data.
>
> This change should help other data, and do no harm that isn't
> already being done.  For example, data taken on an even energy
> grid would 'use all the data' to effectively increase the dwell
> time at each k value linearly with k.  Currently, this does not
> happen with ifeffit/autobk, and the additional statistics
> inherent in such data is lost.
>
> This approach should also make Bruce's job much easier, as the
> calls to spline() and bkg_cl() from athena would not need any
> changes for QEXAFS data.
>
> Any objections, suggestions, or other thoughts?
>
> --Matt
>
> PS: I think that the fix for the non-uniform k-grid problem in
> feffit() and this new E->k procedure would be enough to call it a
> new version.  Were there any other outstanding requests?
>
>
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