Re: How do you find curvature of "splattered" data?

[Robert A. Macy]

Quentin,

an arc, hmmm...interesting concept.

But I think what I need is a polynomial fit to splattered
data.  

Where the solution would be a single curved line drawn as a
"best" fit through the set of data.  

The curve can be relative to the center of the data set.

           - Robert -


On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:05:19 -0600
 Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> What do you mean by curvature? Are you trying to model
> the data as fitting a circular arc and want to know the
> radius? You could also model the data as quadratic (or
> any higher degree polynomial for that matter). I imagine
> that this would be a relatively straightforward extension
> of the linear model you are now using.
> 
> -Quentin
> 



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