Re: Lorentzian on a baseline
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- Subject: [mg89193] Re: Lorentzian on a baseline
- From: dflatin at rcn.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 28, 4:52 am, fred.eng... at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to fit a Lorentzian subtracted from a constant baseline,
> using findfit.
>
> FindFit[rawdata, m1 - m2/((x - m3)^2 + m2^2), {m1, m2, {m3, 250}}, x,
> MaxIterations -> 10000]
>
> Isn't working - either a totally flat horizantal line, or the
> subtracted 'Lorentzian' looks almost delta-function sharp. Help?
> Thanks!
I suspect that your main problem is that you need to provide initial
guesses for m1 and m2 in addition to m3.