[Ifeffit] Artemis fit error - chi-square and R-factors are always equal to 0

Ravel, Bruce bravel at bnl.gov
Fri Mar 26 12:29:40 CDT 2021



I'm sure it's that Artemis is retrieving the information incorrectly 
from the fit object in Larch.  That is, I imagine the fit is running 
correctly and the stats are being evaluated correctly, but Artemis 
failing to report correctly.

I will try to find some time t olook into it....

B


On 3/26/21 1:13 PM, Matt Newville wrote:
> 
> Hi Ava,
> 
> Sorry for the trouble.   It looks to me like the fit actually ran.  
> Like, getting non-trivial and non-starting values and uncertainties for 
> 'ss_Cu1', 'dr_Cu1', etc tells me that many parts of the fit and code 
> worked.   I'm not at all sure why Chi-square and R-factor would report 0.
> 
> Do you get a plot of the fit, and if so, does it look reasonable?
> Can you send any additional information about how the fit is being 
> defined - like data file (or is this one of the example Cu data sets?) 
> and feff.dat file used?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:32 AM Ava Rajh <ava.rajh at ijs.si 
> <mailto:ava.rajh at ijs.si>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I have recently installed Demeter suite on my LinuxMint 20 machine with
>     all required dependencies met. Athena works well and Demeter passed all
>     tests during installation. When running Artemis however, there is an
>     issue with fits that persists with provided examples any any other
>     projects I open (including the ones done by colleagues and just re-run
>     on my machine).
> 
>     After the fit (which completes fine and returns expected fit that looks
>     ok when comparing it to experiment), when inspecting the log file,
>     chi-square, reduced chi-square and R values are equal to 0 (example log
>     file attached bellow). No errors accompany the fit.
> 
>     I am using Larch installed with anaconda, and Artemis uses Feff6
>     executable. I have re-installed Demeter and tried to get it to work
>     with
>     Ifeffit but the error persists. I have found an existing git hub thread
>     dealing with similar issue
>     (https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/issues/62
>     <https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/issues/62>) but no solution
>     that I
>     could discern. Could it be an issue with my perl version (5.30.0)?
> 
> 
> Maybe.  That issue seemed to start with a problem of not being able to 
> find and run Feff.
> I don't know if that is relevant for you - it sure seems like Feff6 ran 
> for you - can you verify that?
> 
> I'm also not sure if that issue ever got resolved.  I was sure confused 
> about what was going on there.
> 
> For sure, it is much easier for me to support and help folks using 
> Larch.  Can you verify that the example fitting scripts for Larch (see 
> https://github.com/xraypy/xraylarch/tree/master/examples/feffit 
> <https://github.com/xraypy/xraylarch/tree/master/examples/feffit> ) work 
> for you?
> 
> --Matt
> 
> 
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  Bruce Ravel  ------------------------------------ bravel at bnl.gov

  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS-II
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