.TH FCHISQ 3M .SH NAME fchisq .SH DESCRIPTION function fchisq.f source Bevington, page 194. purpose evaluate reduced chi square for fit of data fchisq = sum ((y-yfit)**2 / sigma**2) / nfree usage result = fchisq (y, sigmay, npts, nfree, mode, yfit) description of parameters y - array of data points sigmay - array of standard deviations for data points npts - number of data points nfree - number of degrees of freedom mode - determines method of weighting least-squares fit +1 (instrumental) weight(i) = 1./sigmay(i)**2 0 (no weighting) weight(i) = 1. -1 (statistical) weight(i) = 1./y(i) yfit - array of calculated values of y subroutines and function subprograms required none