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Re: polyfit problem?
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ldoolitt |
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Re: polyfit problem? |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:25:30 -0500 (EST) |
Hi -
> When I use octave to get a 9th degree polynomial for xy below, via
> polyfit I get very strange coefficients, while when I use gnuplot's fit
> capability on the same data I get reasonable coefficients.
octave's polyfit does no pre-scaling before setting up the matrix.
I find that necessary for any kind of real work with polynomial fits.
When I ran into this, I prescaled the data before calling polyfit,
rather than "fixing" polyfit. Sorry.
- Larry