Category Archives: Newton

Double Exponential Quadrature

Posted on 07/03/2011 by dougaj4

Graeme Dennes has updated his Tanh-Sinh Quadrature spreadsheet to include Double Exponential Quadrature.  His brief notes are given below, and more details and links to background information are included in the download file. ================================================================= Double Exponential Quadrature UDFs added to Tanh-Sinh Quadrature … Continue reading →

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Non linear regression – 2; ALGLIB functions

Posted on 05/03/2011 by dougaj4

The previous post looked at using the Excel Solver to fit a non-linear equation to a given set of data, using the least squares method.  This approach is reasonably convenient and straightforward, but it has a number of disadvantages: The … Continue reading →

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Non linear regression – 1

Posted on 01/03/2011 by dougaj4

Recent posts have described how to fit linear equations (or equations that can be made linear) to a set of data, using the Excel Linest functions, or User Defined Functions (UDF’s) linking to the ALGLIB library (see Using LINEST for non-linear … Continue reading →

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Charts for discussion

Posted on 24/02/2011 by dougaj4

See the comment from Georg Ströhlein under 2D Spline Interpolation with ALGLIB Here are the charts referred to:

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ALGLIB linear and polynomial fitting functions

Posted on 17/02/2011 by dougaj4

As promised here: Fitting high order polynomials this post presents details of four Excel User Defined Functions (UDFs) linking with ALGLIB functions for least squares fitting of linear and polynomial functions.  The new functions are: AL_Linest: AL_LinestCW: AL_PolyFit: and AL_PolyFitCW: These functions have been added … Continue reading →

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