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lect09, Thu 02/06

More on data fitting

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Reading assignment

Same as last time.

References for today’s lecture

Section 5.1 (curve fitting) of the NCM book.

Outline

• Data fitting by least squares using QR factorization
  • Parametric curve fitting
• numpy/scipy routines:
  • npla.lstsq()
  • npla.norm()
  • np.linspace()
  • several matplotlib routines, see in-class transcript