******************************************************************************* Tue May 6 13:41:19 2014 FIT: data read from 'curve_fit.dat' using 1:2 format = x:z x range restricted to [0.00000 : 18.0000] #datapoints = 5 residuals are weighted equally (unit weight) function used for fitting: a*x*x*x + b*x*x + c*x + d fitted parameters initialized with current variable values Iteration 0 WSSR : 1.74237e+07 delta(WSSR)/WSSR : 0 delta(WSSR) : 0 limit for stopping : 1e-05 lambda : 925.034 initial set of free parameter values a = 1 b = 1 c = 1 d = 1 After 7 iterations the fit converged. final sum of squares of residuals : 223142 rel. change during last iteration : -6.65546e-12 degrees of freedom (FIT_NDF) : 1 rms of residuals (FIT_STDFIT) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf) : 472.379 variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 223142 Final set of parameters Asymptotic Standard Error ======================= ========================== a = 5.02854 +/- 4.05 (80.54%) b = -132.365 +/- 99.41 (75.1%) c = 980.373 +/- 618.1 (63.05%) d = 456.667 +/- 878 (192.3%) correlation matrix of the fit parameters: a b c d a 1.000 b -0.995 1.000 c 0.961 -0.982 1.000 d -0.827 0.865 -0.928 1.000