[Ifeffit] statistical parameters

[Stefano Ciurli]

Hello,

same old question that emerges again:

What formula is used by IFEFFIT to calculate the number of 
independent points? Does it use the formula 2DkDR/pi? or 2DkDR/pi +1? 
or 2DkDR/pi +2? And how does it approximate the resulting number to 
integer?

Next: as far as I understand, the conversion from chi^2 to 
reduced-chi^2 involves dividing the first by the number of degrees of 
freedom. The latter is obtained by subtracting the number or floating 
parameters from the number of independent point right?. What if one 
fixes the value of one parameter, let's say S0^2 to unity? Does the 
number of parameters includes S0^2 in that case? We consider that it 
does not.

Here is an example. We find with IFEFFIT (we use Dk= 10 (from 2 to 
12), DR=5 (from 1 to 6).

chi^2 = 87.1
reduced chi^2 = 3.7
parameters: E0, three distances and three sigma^2
we set S0^2 fixed to 1
R-factor: 1.15%

The ratio between chi^2 and reduced chi^2 is 23.54, which is not an 
integer number as we would expect. Plus, this number does not 
correspond to Ninp -Nvar (31.83 - 5 = 26.83)

What are we missing? Sorry if the question sounds silly to most of you.

Stefano
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