User`s guide

Preface

Documentation Examples and Data Sets

To learn how to use the Curve Fitting Toolbox, you can follow the examples

included in this guide. A quick way to locate these examples is with the

example index, which you can access via the Help browser.

Some examples use data that is generated as part of the example, while other

examples use data sets that are included with the toolbox or with MATLAB.

These data sets are stored as MAT-files and are listed below.

The

enso, gauss3, and hahn1 data sets were obtained from the Statistical

Reference Datasets collection, which is provided by the Information

Technology Laboratory

of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Web site is

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd.

Data Set Description

carbon12alpha

Generated data associated with the nuclear reaction

C(e,e’,α)

Be. The data set is based on the experiment

described by reference [8] in Chapter 3, “Fitting Data.”

census United States population figures for the years 1790 to

1990 in 10-year increments. The data set is included

with MATLAB.

enso Measured data of monthly averaged atmospheric

pressure differences between Easter Island and Darwin,

Australia.

flvote2k 2000 U. S. presidential election results for the state of

Florida. The data set was obtained from

http://election.dos.state.fl.us/.

gauss3 Generated data consisting of two poorly resolved

Gaussian peaks on an exponential background.

hahn1 Measured data of the thermal expansion of copper as a

function of temperature.