Linear Fitting with GNUPLOT

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Sat Oct 18 18:56:15 2008


FIT:    data read from "/srv/gnuplot/tmp//fit-19515-14480.dat" using 1:2
        #datapoints = 9
        residuals are weighted equally (unit weight)

function used for fitting: a+b*x
fitted parameters initialized with current variable values



Iteration 0
WSSR        : 17.4935           delta(WSSR)/WSSR   : 0
delta(WSSR) : 0                 limit for stopping : 1e-05
lambda	  : 0.722647

initial set of free parameter values

a               = 1
b               = 1

After 5 iterations the fit converged.
final sum of squares of residuals : 0.000301768
rel. change during last iteration : -1.09581e-14

degrees of freedom (ndf) : 7
rms of residuals      (stdfit) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf)      : 0.0065658
variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 4.31097e-05

Final set of parameters            Asymptotic Standard Error
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a               = -0.00427369      +/- 0.004042     (94.57%)
b               = 11.095           +/- 0.01917      (0.1728%)


correlation matrix of the fit parameters:

               a      b      
a               1.000 
b              -0.841  1.000