Increase stability of curve fit
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Hello,
I have a signal which I want to fit with the following function:
a*exp(-b*t) - c*exp(-d*t) + e*exp(-f*t)*cos(g*t) + h*exp(-k*t)*sin(l*t) + off
I know that my signal actually has this form and I also know the coefficients, but when I enter them as start points the fit does not exactly match the signal. How can I improve this?
I've chosen a Levenberg-Marquardt-alogorithm with LAR-robustness. Is the problem the large number of parameters?
Regards
twig
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John D'Errico
on 4 Mar 2017
Edited: John D'Errico
on 4 Mar 2017
People think they have this great model. And computers can do anything. :) NOT TRUE.
A vast part of your data is constant, providing no information except what the value of that constant term at the end will be.
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Essentially, about half of your data has no information content. The rest of it? Wildly insufficient to fit the model with all of those coefficients.
plot(time,data_transfer_out)
Sorry, but the fit that you got was worthless. Any attempts to fit that model, using any scheme on this data, will be a complete and utter waste of time.
On top of all that, sums of exponential models are notorious for being difficult to fit.
You can't get blood from a rock. And as bloodless rocks go? This one is highly anemic.
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