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Exponential regression

Purpose
Description
Macro Synopsis
Modules
Related Functions
References


Purpose

Exponential regression

Description

"Exponential regression" takes the input signal and fits an exponential function

to it where t is the variable along the x-axis.

The function is based on the function Linear regression, with the y-axis scaled logarithmically.

Return parameters of "Exponential regression" are:


Besides a and b, the corresponding uncertainties sigma a and sigma b and the linear correlation coefficient r appear in the message window. This coefficent is given by

where the overline denotes mean values.

Values of r near 0 indicate poor fitting, whereas good fitting is indicated by values of r near +1 or -1, depending on whether the exponent b of the fitting function is positive or negative.


Macro Synopsis

y = ExpRegress(x,&a,&b);
signal x,y;
float a,b;

Modules

Statistics

Related Functions

Linear regression, Multilinear regression, Power regression, Remove DC, Remove trend, Long term correlation analysis (LTCA), Principal component analysis (PCA), R/S statistics, Box-Cox transform, Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA).

References

Graybill [12]