On integrating direct methods and isomorphous-replacement techniques: triplet estimation and treatment of errors
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Correlative Microscopy for 3D Structural Analysis of Dynamic Interactions
Published on: June 24, 2013
C Giacovazzo1, D Siliqi, L García-Rodríguez
1Dipartimento Geomineralogico, Università di Bari, Campus Universitario, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy. c.giacovazzo@area.ba.cnr.it
Abstract:
The method of joint probability distribution functions has been generalized in order to include and treat different sources of error. The probability distributions of the isomorphous pairs (E(p), E(d)) and of the two triples (E(ph), E(pk), E(ph+k), E(dh), E(dk), E(dh+k)) are obtained, on the assumption that the lack of isomorphism and the errors in measurements cumulate on the E(d) variables. The conditional distributions of the two-phase and the three-phase structure invariants are derived, showing how the reliability of the probabilistic estimates depends on the errors.
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