California-Planet-Search / rvsearch

RV Planet Search Pipeline Based on RadVel
http://california-planet-search.github.io/rvsearch/
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Delta BIC values on periodogram #186

Closed zhexingli closed 3 years ago

zhexingli commented 3 years ago

I believe delta BIC is calculated as: delta BIC = BIC of the candidate model - lowest BIC value among all models so that models with large delta BIC will not be favored. So I'm surprised when I see that the vertical axis is showing the significant signal is having larger delta BIC value than other insignificant peaks in periodogram: dbic1.pdf Shouldn't the vertical axis be flipped?

Also, for some reasons one of my periodograms is returning negative delta BIC values and not showing FAP level: dbic3.pdf