SciPy Recipes

How it works...

The following code represents the functions of the executed equations:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.optimize import curve_fit

def func(x, a, b, c):
...     return a * np.exp(-b * x) + c

xdata = np.linspace(0, 4, 50)
y = func(xdata, 2.5, 1.3, 0.5)
y_noise = 0.2 * np.random.normal(size=xdata.size)
ydata = y + y_noise
plt.plot(xdata, ydata, 'b-', label='data')

popt, pcov = curve_fit(func, xdata, ydata)
plt.plot(xdata, func(xdata, *popt), 'r-', label='fit')

popt, pcov = curve_fit(func, xdata, ydata, bounds=(0, [3., 2., 1.]))
plt.plot(xdata, func(xdata, *popt), 'g--', label='fit-with-bounds')

plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y')
plt.legend()
plt.show()

The following is the final result: