******************************************************************************* Mon May 12 07:56:44 2014 FIT: data read from 'curve_fit_error_bar.dat' using 1:2:3 format = x:z:s x range restricted to [0.00000 : 18.0000] #datapoints = 5 function used for fitting: a*x + b fitted parameters initialized with current variable values Iteration 0 WSSR : 1981.52 delta(WSSR)/WSSR : 0 delta(WSSR) : 0 limit for stopping : 1e-05 lambda : 0.0946356 initial set of free parameter values a = 1 b = 1 After 5 iterations the fit converged. final sum of squares of residuals : 10.2391 rel. change during last iteration : -2.19549e-12 degrees of freedom (FIT_NDF) : 3 rms of residuals (FIT_STDFIT) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf) : 1.84744 variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 3.41303 Final set of parameters Asymptotic Standard Error ======================= ========================== a = -107.949 +/- 12.31 (11.41%) b = 2866.62 +/- 151.7 (5.293%) correlation matrix of the fit parameters: a b a 1.000 b -0.864 1.000