Re: exponential fitting

[E. Joshua Rigler]

The leasqr.m function in Octave-forge (http://octave.sf.net/) should do
what you want.  You'll need to write a small function that uses your
three parameters (a, b, and c), but that should be trivial.

-EJR

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 08:58, address@hidden wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I would like to use Octave evaluating my data as I did with Matlab before, 
> but I can't find a function for an exponential fit.
> In Matlab I wrote a small function producing something like y=c*exp(a*x)+b 
> and minimized the error between this function and the real data using fmins.
> Is there any equivalent for fmins in Octave or maybe a build-in exponential 
> fit? Or how do you do an exponetial fit? Because I think this is quite common.
> 
> thanks 
> 
> grundmann




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