It is common to subtract the average value of the data. Hence the ACF usually 
contain negative values.

20 dec 2012 kl. 14.30 skrev 申昊:

> 
> Dear GROMACS users,
> 
> I have been working on calculating distance autocorrelation functions by 
> using g_analyze.
> The codes i used was 
> g_analyze -f dist.xvg -ac autocorr.xvg -temp 300.
> 'dist.xvg' is about the average distance against simulation time. The two 
> columns are both positive datas.
> However, the result show a mixture of positive and negative datas. In my 
> opinion, the autocorrelation function should be always positive. 
> 
> Can anyone help me with that ?
> 
> HaoShen
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