RE: cRs

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
121 From: 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

Re: cRs

2009-03-06 Thread Smirnova Olga
er to an enquiry of your present Chair (a former referee of my thesis), and received back lots of pain. Please, stop. I attach the conference contribution to your attention. - Original Message - >> From: "Eduard E. Levin" >> To: >> Cc: >> Date: 2009-

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

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2009-03-06 Thread Eduard E. Levin
ass sample holder, for example, or carbon black. If I'm correct, that the answer would be simple - under this conditions you should never substract background. Eduard. - Original Message - From: "Olga Smirnova" Cc: Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:55 AM Subject: Re: cRs

Re: cRs

2009-03-05 Thread Olga Smirnova
ch 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 a

Re: cRs

2009-03-05 Thread Olga Smirnova
a] *Sent:* 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 ther

RE: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Y. Zavalij
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

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2009-03-04 Thread Whitfield, Pamela
erful, if slightly meaningless 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-fa

RE: cRs

2009-03-04 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
om: Maxim V. Lobanov [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 somewh

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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 i

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[ doi:10.1107/S0021889804013

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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 th

RE: cRs

2009-03-03 Thread Maxim V. Lobanov
ow...@csiro.au] Sent: 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

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2009-03-03 Thread Matthew.Rowles
South, Victoria 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:

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2009-03-03 Thread Olga Smirnova
According to my computer, I received your response 4 minutes earlier than forwarded the email. What is 'verbotten' (volabulary does not find) ? OS Brian O'Connor wrote: Background removal is verbotten! Brian O'Connor From: Olga Smirnova [mailto:olga.smirn...@h

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