> Indeed you missed something. I presume you have the paper. > Then, take a look to the formula (15a). This is the size > profile for lognormal. > There is the function PHI - bar of argument 2*pi*s*<R>. > Replace this function PHI - bar from (15a) by the _expression > (21a) with the argument x=2*pi*s*<R>. > You get it? So, not only "c" but also <R>.
Dear Nicolae, This arithmetic is clear, thanks, but since you did not specify this exact way of <R> calculation in the paper it was not evident. There are several other ways of deriving <R>, for instance: to calculate Dv from the inverse integral breadth and then use eq. (12) or (17) etc. Besides, you did not refine <R> for simulated data in chapter 6 - it was "fixed". When you apply this formalism to real data you refine both <R> and c, they may correlate and the result of such correlation is not apparent. But the most important disadvantage is the necessity to choose the exact type of size distribution. For Sample 1 (which, obviously, have certain distribution with certain <R> and c) you got quite different values of <R> and c for lognorm and gamma models, but the values of Dv and Da were nearly the same. Don't you feel that Dv and Da values "contain" more reliable information about <R> and c than those elaborate approximations described in chapter 6? In new version of DDM (see the following message) I included some estimations of average crystallite diameter <D> and its dispersion sigma<D> based on empirical approximations derived from fitting TCH-pV function to simulated profiles for the model of spherical crystallites with different size distribution dispersions. For simulated data (which are supplied with the DDM package) these "magic" expressions: <D> = Da + 0.25(DaDv)^0.5 and sigma<D> = <D>(Dv/Da - 1/2)/2 allowed reproducing <D> and sigma<D> with less than 10% deviation in the interval of relative dispersions 0.05 < c < 0.4 for both gamma and lognorm distributions. Of course, I don't think that these expressions are perfect and I would be glad to see better estimations. Best regards, Leonid __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide