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Curve Fitting
Prerequisites
Before you start reading this unit, you should:
- Have some knowledge in partial differentiation
- Be able to do some calculations like summations, logarithms of some numbers and their anti logarithms.
- Have little knowledge in plotting of points
Learning Objectives
After going through this unit, you would be able to:
- Know fitting a curve to a data
- Obtain normal equations for any curve
- Understanding the method of least squares in fitting any curve
INTRODUCTION
The general problem in curve fitting is to find an analytical expression to a given set of data points (xi, yi), where x is the independent variable and y is the dependent variable.
In practical statistics, the curve fitting enables us to represent the relationship ...
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