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#51 2010-12-21 03:20:18
- toitu
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- Registered: 2010-03-16
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Re: Creating a dimensionless index
Hi bobbym, I see no problem with removing one or two outposts!
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#52 2010-12-21 10:09:18
- bobbym
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- From: Bumpkinland
- Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Creating a dimensionless index
Hi toitu;
I think you already have enough in the two fits already provided. The last one is like the icing. The third one has been resisting any polynomial or rational fit that I can come up with. From a numerical point of view I am done but it seems that the statisticians have already solved this problem in the general case. I have been reading up on their methods and so far it has been slow going.
I will need more time. Please hold on.
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