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Curve Fitting
Curve Fitting
Part 5
Describes techniques to fit curves (curve fitting) to discrete
data to obtain intermediate estimates.
y
y i
n
i 1, , n
y y
2
St 2
/n
Sy or i i
n 1 S 2
y
n 1
S t ( yi y ) 2
S y2
i
( y y ) 2
Degrees of freedom
n 1
e (y
i 1
i
i 1
i ao a1 xi )
e y
i 1
i
i 1
i a0 a1 xi
n xi yi xi yi
a1
n x xi
2 2
i Mean values
by Lale Yurttas, T Chapter 17 12
a
exas
y a 1 x
0 A&M Universit Copyright 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display.
Figure 17.3
St
r2-coefficient of determination
by Lale Yurttas, T Sqrt(r2) correlation coefficient 16
exas A&M UniversitCopyright 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Permission required for reproduction or display.
For a perfect fit
Sr=0 and r=r2=1, signifying that the line
explains 100 percent of the variability of the
data.
For r=r2=0, Sr=St, the fit represents no
improvement.