Hi Kay,

ok, fair point.

Best,
Tim

On 10/14/2014 01:02 PM, Kay Diederichs wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> I would not consider this as incorrect! What sftools calculates is R_scale, a 
> symmetric version of an R-value. Makes sense when comparing two data sets, or 
> two model amplitudes. Clearly, it gives values which differ from model R 
> values. But at least it defines what it prints out.
> 
> I put this into the wiki ( 
> http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/R-factors ).
> 
> best,
> 
> Kay
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:49:23 +0200, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all (dear developers),
>>
>> on a recent discussion on the phenixbb, Nat figured out that sftools
>> calculates the R-factor incorrectly as
>>
>> "200*Sum|col1-col2|/sum(col1+col2)"
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> "100*Sum|col1-col2|/sum(col1)"
>>
>> May I suggest to either correct this or not call it Rfactor in order to
>> avoid future confusion (as it did on the phenibb)?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Tim
>> -- 
>> Dr Tim Gruene
>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
>> Tammannstr. 4
>> D-37077 Goettingen
>>
>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
>>
>>
> 

-- 
Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen

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