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Excel Curve Fit Coefficients
Koether: Have you tried dumping the complete LINEST output, i.e. selecting a 4columnx5row region and using shift-ctrl-return to get all the coefficients and params? And just for completeness' sake, try using the 'transpose' version posted above to see what you get. I just ran a...- cellocgw
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- Forum: -Engineering spreadsheets
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Excel Curve Fit Coefficients
cub3bead: You're absolutely correct - I've used CurveExpert for several years now. An even better (more powerful) tool is Regress+, by Mike McLaughlin. However, that's MacOS only, which some of us regard as a bonus :-) . I fully agree with the rule that Excel should be the platform of last...- cellocgw
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- Forum: -Engineering spreadsheets
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Excel Curve Fit Coefficients
Followup: Several people on various microsoft/excel forums have told me this is a known bug in Excel2004 (OSX). The workaround is to use the transpose: (note the semicolon in there) =LINEST(TRANSPOSE(y_range),TRANSPOSE(x_range)^{1;2},TRUE,TRUE) The problem appears to be the way that...- cellocgw
- Post #10
- Forum: -Engineering spreadsheets
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Excel Curve Fit Coefficients
There appears to be a bug in Excel2004 for MacOSX, 11.3.5 (at least). Here's an example of 2nd order polynomial fit. If I use the format linest(yarray,xarray^{1,2},1,1) the results are garbage. If I create two columns, one with x values and the next with x^2 values, then linest(yarray...- cellocgw
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- Forum: -Engineering spreadsheets
