Re: polyfit weirdness

[Miquel Cabanas]

hi,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:49:27PM -0800, Henry F. Mollet wrote:
> Your commands produced exactly what Miguel calculated a little
> differently. I'm using GNU Octave, version 2.1.35
> (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2). But please tell me if I'm fitting a
> polynomial of order 1 (= straight line) thru the data

yes, you are

> and that my intercept (-1.49) and slope (4.2-15) appear in the
> wrong order?

no, they are ok. Check the code in polyfit and you will see
that it uses flipupd () to reverse the order of the rows.

Miquel


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