## Copyright (C) 1992-1994 Richard Shrager, Arthur Jutan and Ray Muzic ## ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or ## (at your option) any later version. ## ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ## GNU General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software ## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ## leasqrdemo ## ## An example showing how to use non-linear least squares to fit ## simulated data to the function: ## ## y = a e^{-bx} ## 2001-02-05 Paul Kienzle ## * collected example into a single script 1; # Force this to be a script function y = leasqrfunc(x,p) ##sprintf('called leasqrfunc(x,[%e %e]\n', p(1),p(2)) ## y = p(1)+p(2)*x; y=p(1)*exp(-p(2)*x); endfunction function y = leasqrdfdp(x,f,p,dp,func) ## y = [0*x+1, x]; y= [exp(-p(2)*x), -p(1)*x.*exp(-p(2)*x)]; endfunction ## generate test data t = [1:100]'; p = [1; 0.1]; data = leasqrfunc (t, p); ## add noise ## wt1 = 1 /sqrt of variances of data ## 1 / wt1 = sqrt of var = standard deviation wt1 = (1 + 0 * t) ./ sqrt (data); data = data + 0.05 * randn (100, 1) ./ wt1; ## Note by Thomas Walter : ## ## Using a step size of 1 to calculate the derivative is WRONG !!!! ## See numerical mathbooks why. ## A derivative calculated from central differences need: s ## step = 0.001...1.0e-8 ## And onesided derivative needs: ## step = 1.0e-5...1.0e-8 and may be still wrong F = "leasqrfunc"; dFdp = "leasqrdfdp"; # exact derivative % dFdp = "dfdp"; # estimated derivative dp = [0.001; 0.001]; pin = [.8; .05]; stol=0.001; niter=50; minstep = [0.01; 0.01]; maxstep = [0.8; 0.8]; options = [minstep, maxstep]; global verbose; verbose=1; [f1, p1, kvg1, iter1, corp1, covp1, covr1, stdresid1, Z1, r21] = ... leasqr (t, data, pin, F, stol, niter, wt1, dp, dFdp, options);