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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
According to the standard model, strain in polycrystalline materials transforms like a tensor when measured with diffraction in different directions. This model predicts linear variation of d-spacing with sin2ѱ if the stresses σ13 and σ23 are absent or predicts ѱ-splitting if they are present. In diffraction stress measurements, d vs. sin2ѱ plots often exhibit behavior that cannot be predicted from this model. When such discrepancies are observed, stresses calculated from the data will not always be valid. Current practice is to determine the validity of data by visually inspecting d vs. sin2ѱ plots and subjectively assessing the goodness-of-fit. This paper proposes the χ2 statistic as a tool for quantitatively determining goodness-of-fit, and it presents experimental results from the application of the statistic.