nonLinearFit and nonLinearRegress
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- Subject: [mg55298] nonLinearFit and nonLinearRegress
- From: john.hawkin at gmail.com (John Hawkin)
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 05:34:55 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm trying to do a nonLinear fit on some data, fitting a parameter
which appears in the limits of the integral that I'm trying to fit.
When I do a nonLinearFit, I get about a page of errors, but it does
work. It takes about 10 minutes to do it for 20 points with a
reasonable initial estimate. However when I use the nonLinearRegress
command, even with the best fit parameter from nonLinearFit given as
the initial guess, it takes hours to work. Is it possible there is a
way to speed this up, and is this normal?
The commands that I'm using to integrate this function are:
h[B]:=2/(B pi) NIntegrate[x Sin[x] Exp[-(x/B)^3/2], {x, 0, inf},
Method-Oscillatory];
holts[c_, d_, Q_]:= NIntegrate[h[B], {B, c/Q, d/Q}];
where holts is the function I am fitting (the h[B] integral is known
as the Holtsmark integral). The fitting command I'm using is:
NonlinearFit[fitData, holts[c,d,Q], {c,d}, {Q, estimateQ}];
where fitData contains sets of size 3, with the values of c and d as
the first two values, and the data point that I'm fitting the integral
to as the 3rd value. If anyone has any ideas on how I can perform the
nonlinear regression fast enough so that I can do it many times (maybe
50), I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks very much,
John Hawkin
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