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Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering
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Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering

by James B. Riggs, David M. Himmelblau
May 2012
Beginner
768 pages
23h 17m
English
Pearson
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Appendix N. Fitting Functions to Data

Frequently, you would like to estimate the best values of the coefficients in an equation from experimental data. The equation might be a theoretical law or just a polynomial, but the procedure is the same. Let y be the dependent variable in the equation, bi be the coefficients in the equation, and xi be the independent variables in the equation so that the model is of the form

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Let represent the error between the observation of y, Y, and the predicted value of y using the values of xi and the estimated values of the coefficients bi:

The classical way to get the best estimates of the coefficients is by least ...

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