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Re: curve fitting [message #39226 is a reply to message #3644]

Tue, 04 May 2004 08:28

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Paul Van Delst writes:
>
>
>> I actually went to the advertised page to have a looksee. It's pretty impressive in a
>> whizbang sort of way, although I'll admit to still being relatively inexperienced with the
>> nuances of model and curve fitting. What I found slightly disturbing was the implication
>> (although I may have misread) that this software can automagically solve your problem,
>> i.e. you throw your data at it and it comes up with a fit. Isn't this the scientific
>> method, but backwards?
>
>
> No, no. This is a well-known and modern technique
> called Thinking For You. All the Microsoft products
> use it. It's great! :-)

Ha ha! For full disclosure I _was_ going to mention my bias against Microsoft software
(and by extension most other windows apps) for just that reason but I thought, no - that
wouldn't be fair since IDL is also a windows based app and sure as sh*t it don't do the
thinking for me (based on my unix-only IDL experience...)

paulv

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[Message index]

		Curve Fitting By: Ian E. Sprod on Wed, 08 February 1995 15:57
		Re: curve fitting By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 May 2004 08:28
		Re: curve fitting By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 May 2004 07:08
		Re: curve fitting By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 May 2004 06:59
		Re: curve fitting By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 03 May 2004 22:38
		Re: curve fitting By: b_gom on Wed, 05 May 2004 13:41
		Re: curve fitting By: jbondurant on Mon, 03 May 2004 11:37
		Re: curve fitting By: David Fanning on Mon, 03 May 2004 05:26
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