goodness



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goodness

Perform a Monte Carlo calculation of the goodness-of-fit for the C-statistic
XSPEC> goodness [<no. of realizations>]
This command simulates <no. of realizations> spectra based on the model and writes out the percentage of these simulations with C less than that for the data. If the observed spectrum was produced by the model then this number should be around 50%.



Keith Arnaud (kaa@genji.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Mon Sep 18 14:36:38 EDT 1995