[SciPy-user] linear_least_squares: OverFlow error or flapack.error
David M. Cooke
cookedm at physics.mcmaster.ca
Tue Jun 6 14:46:29 EDT 2006
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:20:21 +0200
massimo sandal <massimo.sandal at unibo.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a simple linear least squares fit of some data in an
> application.
>
> The relevant code runs about as follows, following closely the
> example found on
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/331693.html
>
> ---------
> import matplotlib.numerix as nx
>
> contact_x_points=nx.array(x_points[left_bound:right_bound])
> contact_y_points=nx.array(y_points[left_bound:right_bound])
>
> A=nx.ones((len(contact_x_points),2))
> A[:,0]=contact_x_points
> result=nx.linear_algebra.linear_least_squares(A,contact_y_points)
> ---------
>
> ...but when I run, it crashes with:
>
> File "hooke.py", line 202, in find_contact_point
> result=nx.linear_algebra.linear_least_squares(A,contact_y_points)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric/LinearAlgebra.py",
> line 416, in linear_least_squares
> nlvl = max( 0, int( math.log( float(min( m,n ))/2. ) ) + 1 )
> OverflowError: math range error
You're using Numeric here, not numpy.
[snip error in scipy]
> In my .matplotlibrc the numerix backend is Numeric.
> I'm on Debian Sarge; MPL version is 0.82 ; Scipy is 0.3.2
Any errors in those versions aren't going to be fixed (they're too old;
scipy 0.3.2 depends on Numeric, not numpy, etc.).
You might be happier upgrading to numpy (you'll need a newer
matplotlib too). Since you're just doing linear least squares, you won't
need scipy.
Unfortunately, there aren't any Debian packages yet...
> It must be noticed that I fail to declare
>
> A=nx.ones((len.contact_x_points),2),dtype=float)
> as the example should seem to require, because it gives me another
> error:
>
> TypeError: ones() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dtype'
>
> ...so if this is the problem, please tell me how to correctly pass
> the dtype argument.
Numeric uses typecode (as you found out); numpy uses dtype.
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