Re: Need for (FindFit, Refine) ?
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- Subject: [mg42487] Re: Need for (FindFit, Refine) ?
- From: Bern <bgress at mail.DOTucr.DOT.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:37:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of California, Riverside
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Hello every one, I would like to agree with Mr. Ersek on all of his points. I haven't yet acquired Mathematica 5, but I had noticed this trend somewhat with Mathematica 4.2 too, with NMinimize (which extends FindMinimum). One of the reasons I like Mathematica over, say, other systems is that there aren't a multitude of obscurely named and seemingly redundant functions from which to choose. I wish they would just extend the functionality with more of those Options-type of controls (PlotPoints->Automatic etc). Regards, Bernard Gress Ersek, Ted R wrote: > Hello, > > In Mathematica version 5 we have new functions FindFit, and Refine. > > Why do we need FindFit when we already had Fit? > What can we do with Refine that we couldn't previously do with Simplify or > FullSimplify? >