General Least Squares Applet

General Least Squares Applet © M. Pilant, 1998
Function Parsing © T. Kiffe, 1997

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Instructions
  1. Enter (or cut and paste)
    Tabular Data in the Text Area.
    Default entries come from stock market trends.
  2. Enter Basis Functions in Text Field...
  3. Press Plot to Plot the Data. Data is auto-scaled to fit window.
  4. Press Fit to Fit Basis Functions to Data...
  5. The function of "best fit" is returned in the lower right text area.
  6. As a general rule, if the coefficient is very small, don't include that basis function!

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