Re: ISIS and its fit statistics

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:12 -0800, FIll Humphrey wrote:
> To whom it may concern...

Apologies for the slow reply -- I was traveling last week
and away from my email.

[...]
> 1. In the computation of the cash statistic (cash.c in the code?), I've
> run into a serious issue if the model in any bin hits zero. To whit, in 
[...]

I think you're right -- I'll fix this in the next release.

> 
> 2. For both the Cash and \chi^2 fit statistics, to my very inexperienced 
> reading of the code, neither seem to take into account the errors on the 
> background you read in. Is this correct? I've noticed tangible differences 
[...]

This is correct; it works this way for historical reasons, but
it is something that should be corrected.  I will try to work
this fix into the next release as well.

Thanks,
-John


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