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Re: NDSolve

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg13980] Re: [mg13971] NDSolve
• From: David Withoff <withoff>
• Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 16:59:06 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> Hi!
> I'm a chemist working on my PhD thesis about kinetics and NMR
> spectroscopy.
> A typical problem (i don't know how to deal with) is to fit experimental
> data to the
> (numerical) solutions of a system of coupled differential equations. I
> want to use
> mathematica (the function NDSolve), but i don't know if it is possible
> to
> optimize the parameters with the help of a least-squares fit: start with
> typical parameters --> NDSolve --> determination of the errors
> ---> varying the parameters --> NDSolve ---> least-squares optimization
> ---> ...
> Maybe a book or a typical example would help me ... Thank you very much!
> Patrick Huebler, Bonn, Germany
> patrick at rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de

See "How can I fit data to a model that is defined using NDSolve?" in
the Wolfram Research web site:

http://www.wolfram.com/support/Math/Statistics/NDSolveFit.html

Dave Withoff
Wolfram Research