******************************************************************************* Tue May 6 13:42:52 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 + b*x + c fitted parameters initialized with current variable values Iteration 0 WSSR : 2.42714e+07 delta(WSSR)/WSSR : 0 delta(WSSR) : 0 limit for stopping : 1e-05 lambda : 68.4354 initial set of free parameter values a = 1 b = 1 c = 1 After 5 iterations the fit converged. final sum of squares of residuals : 567116 rel. change during last iteration : -8.47589e-06 degrees of freedom (FIT_NDF) : 2 rms of residuals (FIT_STDFIT) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf) : 532.502 variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 283558 Final set of parameters Asymptotic Standard Error ======================= ========================== a = -9.53321 +/- 10.93 (114.7%) b = 243.115 +/- 193.6 (79.64%) c = 1358.25 +/- 556.3 (40.96%) correlation matrix of the fit parameters: a b c a 1.000 b -0.974 1.000 c 0.762 -0.852 1.000