Timeline for Is least squares the standard method to fit a 3 parameters Gaussian function to some x and y data?
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| Sep 25, 2013 at 1:24 | vote | accept | danilinares | ||
| Sep 24, 2013 at 14:29 | answer | added | whuber♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 13:37 | vote | accept | danilinares | ||
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| Sep 24, 2013 at 13:31 | comment | added | whuber♦ | Fitting a Gaussian to data like these is described at stats.stackexchange.com/questions/70153/… (including R code). Least squares fits are maximum likelihood estimates for Normally-distributed residuals. As Nick Cox points out, your residuals do not have such distributions. | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 10:56 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 1 characters in body |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 10:54 | answer | added | Nick Cox | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 4:08 | history | asked | danilinares | CC BY-SA 3.0 |