RE: cRs

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
: Beekman, Matthew [mailto:mbeek...@cas.usf.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 7:20 PM To: Peter Y. Zavalij; rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: cRs Hello all, A quick question regarding the background subtracted R values: In the .LST file, GSAS gives two sets of values for wRp and Rp: Fitted

Re: cRs

2009-03-06 Thread Eduard E. Levin
AM Subject: Re: cRs As a rule, before doing that I'd switch to xye format to preserve the statistics Wow. What a rule. Did anyone try to calculate simple mean deviance and compare with popular R factors? OS

Re: cRs

2009-03-06 Thread Jon Wright
Olga Smirnova wrote: Did anyone try to calculate simple mean deviance and compare with popular R factors? OS For simple mean deviance do you mean like in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviance_(statistics) Seems we normally call that chi^2. If that's what you meant, then yes, people do

Re: cRs

2009-03-06 Thread Smirnova Olga
Subject: Re: cRs Dear Olga! Maybe you should explain what do you mean by saying background? To my opinion you were given an exhaustive answer, but you still disagree with companions. This is puzzling. I suppose that you are assigning as background contribution from partially amorphous

Re: cRs

2009-03-05 Thread Olga Smirnova
:* Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:17 AM *To:* Jon Wright; olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp *Cc:* rietveld_l@ill.fr *Subject:* RE: cRs I'll put my tuppence worth in here as there can be another consideration with high backgrounds. Normally I wouldn't touch the background, but there are times when

Re: cRs

2009-03-05 Thread Olga Smirnova
, 2009 8:17 AM *To:* Jon Wright; olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp *Cc:* rietveld_l@ill.fr *Subject:* RE: cRs I'll put my tuppence worth in here as there can be another consideration with high backgrounds. Normally I wouldn't touch the background, but there are times when a high background

Re: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Leonid Solovyov
Maxim V. Lobanov wrote: However, some Rietveld programs do not have good selection of BG functions, and it is sometimes problematic to correctly fit the BG - so, I think in this case careful BG removal would be the only option. Not the only option... You have an option to forget about the

Re: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Jon Wright
Dear Olga, As you've noticed, the Rietveld R-factors tell you how well you fit the pattern, but don't tell you how well you fit the peaks. There is a correlated intensities R-factor which follows from the methods outlined in: J. Appl. Cryst. (2004). 37, 621-628[

Re: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Olga Smirnova
Dear All, I think one should not just say that it is /verbotten /to subtract background. Merci to all replies. I would swallow and 'subtract' if I would not be full. :-) Best regards, Olga Olga Smirnova wrote: Andreas Leineweber wrote: Dear all, I think one should not just say that it

RE: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
[mailto:m_loba...@huntsman-nmg.com] Sent: Tue 3/3/2009 11:35 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: cRs As far as I understand, the major issue is that BG subtraction changes the error statistics (accordingly, weights applied in calculating function to minimize...). It is also somewhat arbitrary how you

RE: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Whitfield, Pamela
Rwp for the paper! Pam From: Jon Wright [mailto:wri...@esrf.fr] Sent: Wed 04/03/2009 4:00 AM To: olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: cRs Dear Olga, As you've noticed, the Rietveld R-factors tell you how well you fit

RE: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
; olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: cRs I'll put my tuppence worth in here as there can be another consideration with high backgrounds. Normally I wouldn't touch the background, but there are times when a high background causes an artificially shallow minimum

RE: cRs

2009-03-03 Thread Brian O'Connor
Background removal is verbotten! Brian O'Connor From: Olga Smirnova [mailto:olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp] Sent: Wed 4/03/2009 2:14 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: cRs Dear All, How is life with conventional R factors when you always have to divide by

RE: cRs

2009-03-03 Thread Matthew.Rowles
AUSTRALIA 3169 Ph: +61 3 9545 8892 Fax: +61 3 9562 8919 (site) Email: matthew.row...@csiro.au -Original Message- From: Olga Smirnova [mailto:olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp] Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 16:30 To: Brian O'Connor Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: cRs According to my

RE: cRs

2009-03-03 Thread Maxim V. Lobanov
: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:32 AM To: olga.smirn...@hw7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: cRs It's German... verboten == forbidden. You should never delete the background from a diffraction pattern prior to (Rietveld) analysis. It changes peak positions and shapes