Category Archives: Curve fitting

More circle fitting options with Scipy

Posted on March 17, 2018 by

A comment on the first post on this topic found that the method used did not work well for short arcs of large radius circles.  An example of the problem can be seen in the screen shots below: The function … Continue reading →

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Cubic splines with jagged data

Posted on February 7, 2018 by

A cubic spline provides a good approximation to a smooth curve, and alternative versions are available for free download (see Daily Download 22: Splines and Curves, Update to AL-Spline-Matrix, and xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1), but if … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Beam Bending, Concrete, Curve fitting, Excel, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Using Alglib least-squares solvers

Posted on September 23, 2017 by

Following the last post on using the Python version of Alglib from Excel, via xlwings, this post looks in more detail at alternatives for fitting a non-linear function to a set of data, using the Levenberg-Marquardt method.  The spreadsheet with … Continue reading →

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Excel to Alglib via xlwings

Posted on August 11, 2017 by

The Alglib library provides many valuable numerical analysis routines, but the VBA version is no longer actively maintained.  The latest versions are available in C++, C#, and Python, of which the Python version (in conjunction with xlwings) provides the easiest interface … Continue reading →

Posted in AlgLib, Curve fitting, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, UDFs, VBA, xlwings | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Plotting Freeze-Thaw Data …

Posted on June 21, 2017 by

… or other irregular cyclic data. Another Eng-Tips question asked how to approximate ice area over a freeze-thaw cycle using a function based on a sine or cosine curve.  The screen-shot below shows three alternatives: Using built in Excel functions requires … Continue reading →

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Weighted Least Squares Regression, using Excel, VBA, Alglib and Python

Posted on February 5, 2017 by

Least squares linear regression in Excel is easy.  That’s what the Linest and Trend functions do.  That is, they find the coefficients of a straight line (or higher dimension shape) so that the sum of the squares of the distances of … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1

Posted on October 2, 2016 by

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet (last presented here) has been updated for the latest version of xlwings and Scipy. The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from: xlScipy-xlw.zip including full open source code. The spreadsheet requires Python, including xlwings, Numpy, Scipy and Pandas … Continue reading →

Posted in Arrays, Curve fitting, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments