[SciPy-User] How to fit data with errorbars

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 13:31:47 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:28, Skipper Seabold <jsseabold at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Honestly, I'd recommend staying away from any sources that use the
>> word "regression". They are perfectly fine sources in general, but
>> they come from a very different background and have a very different
>> focus from what engineers need.
>
> Fair enough and far afield from what I know though
> <http://www.eas.asu.edu/~masmlab/montgomery/> and the book covers the
> OP's original question.

Ah, good. A data point against the heuristic, then. :-)

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco



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