The procedure of calculating the mean orientation considered by Humbert et al. [ J. Appl. Cryst. (1996), 29 , 662–666] is reformulated in terms of quaternions of unit magnitude. The problem is reduced to the calculation of an eigenvector of a certain symmetric 4 × 4 matrix.
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