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faster polyfit
From: |
Dr. G. Buerger |
Subject: |
faster polyfit |
Date: |
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:17:16 +0100 |
Hi octave,
2 things. First, I would like to know if it is a general problem of killing long
loops with ^C? On my machine, the loop only stops after the regular (very long)
time.
Second, I've slightly modified the code polyfit.m. Somehow, it consumes an
enormous amount of time calculating the following:
______
...
[Q, R] = qr (C);
p = R \ (Q' * y);
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Here is my alternative polfit.m which seems to work much faster.
regards,
Gerd
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## usage: polfit (x, y, n)
##
## Returns the coefficients of a polynomial p(x) of degree n that
## minimizes sumsq (p(x(i)) - y(i)), i.e., that best fits the data
## in the least squares sense.
function p = polfit (x, y, n)
if (nargin != 3)
usage ("polfit (x, y, n)");
endif
if (! (is_vector (x) && is_vector (y) && size (x) == size (y)))
error ("polfit: x and y must be vectors of the same size");
endif
if (! (is_scalar (n) && n >= 0 && ! isinf (n) && n == round (n)))
error ("polfit: n must be a nonnegative integer");
endif
l = length (x);
x = reshape (x, l, 1);
y = reshape (y, l, 1);
C = (x * ones (1, n+1)) .^ (ones (l, 1) * (0 : n));
b = - C' * y;
## Compute polynomial coeffients, making returned value compatible
## with Matlab.
A = C'*C;
L = chol(A);
y = inv(L') * b;
p = - inv(L) * y;
if (! prefer_column_vectors)
p = p';
endif
endfunction
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