2009

autoScale.py - A program for automatic finite-size scaling analyses: A user's guide

Melchert, O.

Understand

autoScale.py is a program that performs an automatic finite-size scaling analysis for given sets of simulated data.

It implements a quite general scaling assumption and optimizes an initial set of scaling parameters that enforce a data collapse of the different data sets.
The presented guide describes how the program works, it presents a detailed example and finally gives some hints on how to improve the results of a scaling analysis.

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