Change the fit or test statistic in use, for one or more spectra.
| Syntax: | statistic | [chi |cstat[#[b]] | lstat |pgstat |pstat |whittle[#]] [<spectrum range>] |
|---|---|---|
| statistic test | [ad |chi |cvm |ks | pchi |runs] [<spectrum range>] |
The fit statistic options are chi-squared (chi), C statistic (cstat, note that this is the W statistic if there is background), Loredo statistic (lstat), a statistic for Poisson data with assumed known background (pstat), a statistic for Poisson data with Gaussian background (pgstat), and the Whittle statistic (whittle) for power density functions. If the statistic is given as cstat with a number appended (e.g. cstat5) then the statistic is calculated after the data are binned to contain a minimum number of counts in each channel where the minimum number is the number appended. If the number is followed by b then the binning is based on the minimum number of counts in the background spectrum. Note that this binning only occurs when calculating the statistic and has to be done every time so it is much less efficent than using an external program (such as ftgrouppha). If the statistic is given as whittle with a number appended (e.g. whittle5) then the statistic is appropriate for that number of power density functions averaged together.
The test statistic options are Anderson-Darling (ad), chi-squared (chi), Cramer-von Mises (cvm), CUSUM (cusum), Kolmogorov-Smirnov (ks), Pearson chi-square (pchi) and Runs (runs).
All These statistics are described in more in detail in Appendix B.
If a spectrum number or spectrum range is given, the chosen statistic will only apply to those spectra. It is therefore possible for a multi-spectrum fit to use more than one fit or test statistic. If no spectrum number or range is given, the chosen statistic will apply to all loaded spectra and will be the default statistic for any future loaded spectra.
Note that if the chosen statistic is not compatible with the currently used weight method, the weight method will be changed to standard weighting until the conflict is removed.
Examples:
Assume 3 spectra are currently loaded, all using the chi-squared statistic, and that chi-squared is the default statistic.
XSPEC12>statistic cstat 2-3 // Spectrum 1 continues to use chi-sq, 2 and 3 use cstat. XSPEC12>statistic cstat5 3 // Spectrum 3 uses cstat but with a binning to a minimum // number of 5 counts/bin. XSPEC12>data 4 spec4.pha // New spectrum 4 will use chi-sq. XSPEC12>statistic cstat // All 4 spectra now use cstat, cstat is the new default. XSPEC12>data 5 spec5.pha // New spectrum 5 will use cstat. XSPEC12>statistic test ks // All 4 spectra now use ks as the test statistic.