Re: help finding define_counts()

Hi,

continuing the suggestions of Mike, one could also add some 
documentation on the variable Minimum_Stat_Err. When it's not an 
counts-Spectrum one wants to fit, one has often to set it to a value 
much lower than 1, perhaps even DOUBLE_MIN.

Cheers,

Manfred


Michael Noble wrote (2008-03-10, 04:22 PM):
> Hi John,
> 
> It would be helpful if the "See Also" sections of the help for
> 
> 		load_data()
> 		put_data_counts
> 
> mentions define_counts(), since it offers a third way to input data
> for modeling.
> 
> For example, I knew I could model a dataset populated strictly from
> in-memory arrays, and I could find that put_data_counts() was one
> way to do so.
> 
> But, that function only allows one to change an existing dataset;
> to create an entirely new dataset from in-memory arrays one needs
> define_counts().
> 
> This fact is not straightforward for less savvy users to discover
> on their own, since walking the natural paths through the online
> docs, such as
> 
> 	isis>  help load_data
> 	isis>  help put_data_counts
> 
> does not reveal the existence of define_counts().  Naively, I also did
> 
> 	isis>  help data
> 
> but that didn't reveal its existence, either.  For symmetry, then,
> perhaps 
> 
> 	define_data()
> or
> 	define_data_counts()
> 
> could be added as a synonym for define_counts().
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

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