% Copyright (C) 1992-1994 Richard Shrager % Copyright (C) 1992-1994 Arthur Jutan % Copyright (C) 1992-1994 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 function leasqrdemo % generate test data t = [1:10:100]'; p = [1; 0.1]; data = leasqrfunc (t, p); rnd = [ 0.352509 -0.040607 -1.867061 -1.561283 1.473191 0.580767 0.841805 1.632203 -0.179254 0.345208 ]; % 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 * rnd ./ 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); 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); 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)];