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Let us start with a set of unitary structure factors |U h |;obs, which are derived from the intensity data by standard normalisation procedures.

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Gilmore, C.J. (1998). An Introduction to Maximum entropy in Action. In: Fortier, S. (eds) Direct Methods for Solving Macromolecular Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 507. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9093-8_11

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