Re: Use leasqr.m in octave to fit data with error

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I have a data file looks like,
>
>data = [
> 10 1684.023253675213 142923.5184171736
> 11 1154.101457435897 79000.44034169338
> 12 793.8254991880336 44430.77751038589
> 13 548.7675124786326 24452.17758038106
>...]
>
>where the first column are variable values, the second one are data values
>and the third one are corresponding errors of data on second column.
>
>I've used function leasqr.m to fit these data to some analytic function. It
>seems to work well but I'm still wondering that I've done right things with
>inputs. My question is:
>Is it correct to set variable "wt" of the function equal to the inverse of
>error: wt = 1./data(:,3)

Yes, it is, as far as I know.

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