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Re: st: fit an exponential function


From   Carmen Blanco <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: fit an exponential function
Date   Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:05:11 +0100

Thanks you Jay.


2012/11/18 JVerkuilen (Gmail) <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Carmen Blanco <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a scatter plot.
>>
>> I want to fit in the graph by an exponential curve.
>>
>> For example, to a linear function I use -lfit-  command  and I need to
>> know how to do the adjustment with the exponential function.
>
> I don't think there's a direct way to do it with a plot function. You
> could fit an exponential model with nonlinear least squares (-nl-) or
> a generalized linear model (-glm-), create predicted values, and then
> use a connected line plot or some other interpolating function. I
> haven't used the fractional polynomial interpolating fits so I don't
> know enough about them to comment but if you just want a good smooth
> curve interpolator, that may work too.
>
> Jay
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