Re: Q: Error in function polyfit() ???

[Mario Storti]

> Hello,
> 
> i used the function polyfit(). I found it is buggy.
> I test it with
> x=1:10;
> y=x;
> [p, value] = polyfit(x,y, 4);
> 
> and i got strange results.
> Is a replacement for polyfit() aviable.
> 
> Franz-Josef


polyfit() returns the vector of coefficients of the lest square
polynomial of order "n". You should call polyval() afterwards:

> x=1:10;
> y=x;
> p = polyfit(x,y, 4);
> value= polyval(p,4)

Here you compute the Least Squares fitted polynomial of 4rd order and
then eval to obtain the value at x=4.

Cheers,

Mario

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