Tag Archives: SciPy

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

Posted on 05/02/2017 by dougaj4

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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Non-linear frame analysis; moment curvature and self-weight

Posted on 10/10/2016 by dougaj4

The Python/Fortran/Excel frame analysis program (previous version here) now has several new features added to the 2D-solver routines: The beam bending behaviour may now be specified with moment-curvature tables, rather than the linear-plastic behaviour required in the previous version. Beam … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1

Posted on 02/10/2016 by dougaj4

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 →

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Non-linear Frame Analysis – Scipy solvers

Posted on 11/09/2016 by dougaj4

The frame analysis spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated to use the solvers included in the Scipy package.  There is now an option to use either the Cholesky solver, or an iterative sparse solver.  The main advantages of … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.7

Posted on 17/04/2016 by dougaj4

Following recent posts on xlwings 0.7.1, dictionaries, and optional arguments and xlwings – dataframes and statistics, I have added the associated functions and examples to the xlwSciPy spreadsheet, and also updated it to xlwings 0.71. The new spreadsheet can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments