RE: About zero counts etc.

2006-10-11 Thread David, WIF \(Bill\)
Title: RE: About zero counts etc. Dear all, Jon's right - when the counts are very low - i.e. zeroes and ones around - then the correct Bayesian approach is to use Poisson statistics. This, as Jon said, has been tackled by Antoniadis et al. (Acta Cryst. (1990). A46, 692-711  Maximum-likelih

Re: TOPAS-Academic version 4 now available

2006-10-11 Thread Christian Baerlocher
Dear Alan,Thanks for this announcement.  We are of course very interested to obtain this new version, especially as we seem to be so lucky to get it for free ;-)Many thanks.Best regardsChristianOn Oct 11, 2006, at 9:56 PM, AlanCoelho wrote: Dear allVersion 4 of the Academic version of Bruker-AXS TO

Re: About zero counts etc.

2006-10-11 Thread wright
Hello Joerg, > -Having measured n counts, the estimated value is n+1 You might have a hard time convincing me on that one. > -Having measured n counts, the esd is also sqrt(n+1)! If n is zero then spending more time on the data collection might be better than more time on the analysis. > Thing

TOPAS-Academic version 4 now available

2006-10-11 Thread AlanCoelho
Dear all Version 4 of the Academic version of Bruker-AXS TOPAS, TOPAS-Academic, is now available to degree-granting institutions comprising universities, university run institutes, laboratories and schools. Bruker-AXS TOPAS shall be released before the end of the year.This version is big step

About zero counts etc.

2006-10-11 Thread Joerg Bergmann
Hi all, from time to time, the problem of zero values in the pattern is discussed. I have done an indepth Bayesian approach: Have assumed identical probability of all values prior to measurement and have calculated the Bayesian distribution of probabilities after having measured n counts, its est

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2006-10-11 Thread John Evans
Dear Rietveld List, Please ignore my last email which was sent to the list in error. An unthinking use of "reply" for which I apologise. John Evans -- *** Dr John S. O. Evans, Reader in Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry, Departme

license

2006-10-11 Thread John Evans
Hi Alan, Would it be possible to get a license for one of my students laptops? It's the guy who's done all the surface fitting work in the paper I sent you recently. He's wanting to write up/finish a last bit of data analysis from home so it would be really useful for him. I've attached t