******************************************************************************* Sun Apr 27 12:51:25 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 + b fitted parameters initialized with current variable values Iteration 0 WSSR : 2.6061e+07 delta(WSSR)/WSSR : 0 delta(WSSR) : 0 limit for stopping : 1e-05 lambda : 5.88218 initial set of free parameter values a = 1 b = 1 After 4 iterations the fit converged. final sum of squares of residuals : 782643 rel. change during last iteration : -3.47834e-07 degrees of freedom (FIT_NDF) : 3 rms of residuals (FIT_STDFIT) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf) : 510.765 variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 260881 Final set of parameters Asymptotic Standard Error ======================= ========================== a = 78.6667 +/- 41.87 (53.23%) b = 1727.67 +/- 345.8 (20.01%) correlation matrix of the fit parameters: a b a 1.000 b -0.751 1.000