TY - JOUR AU - Sommer, Rainer AU - Bruno, Mattia TI - On fits to correlated and auto-correlated data JO - Computer physics communications VL - 285 IS - DESY-22-154 SN - 0010-4655 CY - Amsterdam PB - North Holland Publ. Co. M1 - PUBDB-2022-04925 M1 - DESY-22-154 M1 - arXiv:2209.14188 SP - 108643 PY - 2023 N1 - 15 pages, 4 figures AB - Observables in particle physics and specifically in lattice QCD calculations are often extracted from fits. Standard χ<sup>2</sup> tests require a reliable determination of the covariance matrix and its inverse from correlated and auto-correlated data, a challenging task often leading to close-to-singular estimates. These motivate modifications of the definition of χ<sup>2</sup> such as uncorrelated fits. We show how the goodness-of-fit measured by their p-value can still be estimated robustly for a broad class of such fits. KW - lattice field theory (INSPIRE) KW - covariance (INSPIRE) KW - Chi-squared test (autogen) KW - Goodness of fit (autogen) KW - Autocorrelations (autogen) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000908997300001 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108643 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/482723 ER -