“…In the SIR program the estimates of the one-phase structure seminvariants of O 1987 International Union of Crystallography first rank via their second representation are improved via the estimates of a special class of twophase seminvariants (Burla, Nunzi, Giacovazzo & Polidori, 1981). The phase value Ca of any onephase seminvariant is assumed to be distributed according to the von Mises distribution (Cascarano, Giacovazzo, Calabrese, Burla, Nunzi, Polidori & Viterbo, 1984 where 01 is the expected value of ~1. The structure seminvariants with the largest values of G1 are actively used in the phase expansion process, while all the seminvariants cooperate to give the following figure of merit:…”