Dos and don'ts of reduced chi-squared

1 code implementation • 16 Dec 2010 • Rene Andrae, Tim Schulze-Hartung, Peter Melchior

Concerning nonlinear models, the number of degrees of freedom is unknown, i. e., it is not possible to compute the value of reduced chi-squared.

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