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Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT

by David Fanning <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 9, 2008 at 06:38 AM

Gernot Hassenpflug writes:

> I spent literally months trying to find out how best to do such
> covariance matrix calculations for fitted parameters (also on
> calculating the input covariances) with various commercial programs,
> since I did not trust myself to use the available open software
> without first checking on 'proven' software: Matlab does not have such
> a function (I did not trust my coding from scratch based on Numerical
> Recipes), nor does Mathematica (unless you buy the extra Statistics
> toolbox), and with Maple it is a royal pain to get the parameters out
> of the structure they are in---but excellent for cross-checking.

Why don't you write a little article for us on how
you did this so we can all share in the knowledge
of how it is done? I'll give you a space for it if
you don't have your own.

Cheers,

David
-- 
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")




 6 Posts in Topic:
A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
Gernot Hassenpflug <ge  2008-05-09 13:48:58 
Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
David Fanning <news@[E  2008-05-09 06:38:18 
Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
Gernot Hassenpflug <ge  2008-05-11 01:07:09 
Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
David Fanning <news@[E  2008-05-10 11:28:43 
Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
Craig Markwardt <craig  2008-05-09 10:23:30 
Re: A heartfelt thank you for MPFIT
Gernot Hassenpflug <ge  2008-05-11 01:07:51 

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