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Re: mpfit: meaning of status flag [message #53769 is a reply to message #53683]

Tue, 01 May 2007 07:33

Maarten[1]
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On May 1, 1:27 pm, Christopher Thom <c...@oddjob.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Quoth Maarten:
>
>> A plot of the fit looks OK, and the residuals seem to be fine, so I
>> suspect it is OK, but the documentation is a bit vague: "STATUS: an
>> integer status code is returned. All values other than zero can
>> represent success." So I might be successful, but I'm certainly a bit
>> uncertain right now ;)
>
> The documentation in mpfit.pro is pretty explicit.

Thanks, I'd been looking at the mpfitfun docs, which is somewhat less
explicit. I should have thought to look at the primary source.

> A return status of 1 means that everything is working ok, and that the
> routine seems to have found the minimum. If your fit looks ok, and the
> errors seem reasonable, then your work here is done.

I already assumed that that was the case.

Maarten

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		Re: mpfit: meaning of status flag By: Christopher Thom on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:27
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