Re: [Tutor] fit data to equation

2013-09-06 Thread Tanmaya Meher
You can try the below tutorial. 1. http://wiki.scipy.org/Cookbook/FittingData 2. http://people.duke.edu/~ccc14/pcfb/analysis.html Also, take a look at the below curve fitting tool from optimization tool set of scipy. I think it will help you better and with ease. http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy

Re: [Tutor] fit data to equation

2013-09-06 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 6 September 2013 13:19, I. Alejandro Fleischer wrote: > > It's a variation , of a physical value ("y") in time ("x") (while > cooling) , you have the data measured (xi, yi), but not from x=0. I need to > extrapolate "y" to "x=0", by that equation. > > I know the very basics about statistics,

Re: [Tutor] fit data to equation

2013-09-06 Thread I. Alejandro Fleischer
Dear Alan and Oscar Thank you. I'll try to be more accurate: What Oscar wrote is exactly the situation: > "I'm going to assume that you have some data that gives paired > measurements of two quantities e.g. (x1, y1), (x2, y2), ... (xn, yn). > You want to find parameters a, b, and k so that y