| Peaks Properties
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Specifies the peak characteristics to be computed and displayed in the peak worksheet report.
- Peak Index: The indices of peaks.
- Peak Function Type: The function that was used to fit the peak. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Peak Type.)
- Fitted Peak Area: Integrate to find the area between the peak function and the baseline using the parameter values obtained from the fit. The integration is performed from
to . (In the report worksheet, this column is named Area Fit.)
- Fitted Peak Area Contained in Fitting Range: Integrate to find the area between the peak function and the baseline using the parameter values obtained from the fit. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Area FitT.)
- Fitted Peak Area Contained in Fitting Range(%): Integrate to find the area between the peak function and the baseline using the parameter values obtained from the fit. The integration is performed within the data range only. The result is expressed as a percent of the total area. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Area FitTP.)
- Peak Area by Integrating Data: Integrate to find the area between the fitted peak data and the baseline. The fitted peak data corresponds to Fit Peak # (Long Name) in FitPeakCurve# output sheet. The integration is performed within the data range only. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Area Intg.)
- Peak Area by Integrating Data(%): Integrate to find the area between the fitted peak data and the baseline. The fitted peak data corresponds to Fit Peak # (Long Name) in FitPeakCurve# output sheet. The integration is performed within the data range only. The result is expressed as a percent of the total area. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Area IntgP.)
- Location for Peak Maximum Height: The X value for the peak maximum. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Center Max.)
- Peak Gravity Center: The X value of the peak center of gravity (
). See 3rd Order Moment below. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Center Grvty.)
- Peak Maximum Height: The Y value for the peak maximum. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Max Height.)
- Full Width @ Half Maximum: The peak width at half the peak's maximum value (In the report worksheet, this column is named FWHM).
- Width At: Specifies whether to enable the Width At(% of peak maximum) text box below.
- Width At(% of peak maximum): The peak width at n% of the peak's maximum value, where n is the value entered in this text box. (In the report worksheet, this column is named WidthAtP.)
- Area above: Specifies whether to enable the Area above(% of peak maximum) text box below.
- Area above(% of peak maximum): The peak area above the n% of the peak's maximum value, where n is the value entered in this text box (In the report worksheet, this column is named AreaAbove).
- Cumulative Area to: Specifies whether to enable the Cumulative Area to(Relative to center) text box below.
- Cumulative Area to(Relative to center): The cumulative fitted area from
to X, where X is the value entered in this text box and will be viewed as a specified value relative to the peak center (In the report worksheet, this column is named CumArea).
- Peak Variance: variance of the function, which is the second moment (
). See 3rd Order Moment below (In the report worksheet, this column is named Variance).
- Peak Skew: Fisher skewness, which is a measure of the degree of asymmetry of the peak.

- where
is the 3rd order moment and is the 2nd order moment. See their computations below.
- (In the report worksheet, this column is named Skew.)
- Peak Excess: Fisher kurtosis, measures the long-tailedness or peakedness of the peak relative to the normal or Gaussian distribution with the same mean and variance.

- where
is the 4th order moment and is the 2nd order moment. See their computations below.
- (In the report worksheet, this column is named Excess.)
- Resolution with Next Adjacent Peak.

- where
and are peak centers, and and are constructed base widths.
- (In the report worksheet, this column is named Resolution.)
- 3rd Order Moment:
- The moments are defined as follows:
(0th moment or the area of the peak)
, where (nth zero-point moment)
, where ((nth central moment)
- (In the report worksheet, this column is named Moment3.)
- 4th Order Moment:
- The fourth order moment. See 3rd Order Moment above. (In the report worksheet, this column is named Moment4.)
- Moments Computation Methods:
- This is available only when a least one of the following check boxes are selected: Peak Skew, Peak Excess, Resolution with Next Adjacent Peak, 3rd Order Moment and 4th Order Moment. You can use this drop-down list to select the method to calculate the peak properties related to moments. Two options are available:
- Speed Mode (Numeric Integral): Use trapezoid rule to perform integration on datasets when computing the moments.
- Accurate Mode (Function Integral): Use the function definition to compute the moments. This is more accurate than the speed mode.
- Note: for a peak which you fit with GaussAmp, Gaussian, Lorentz or BiGaussian, the selection in this drop-down list will not apply. Instead, Origin used the fitted parameters to calculate the moments.
- Y Maximum:
- Output the Y maximum (with baseline) for each found peak.
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