fitted curve start from zero?

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Davide Cerra
Davide Cerra on 9 Dec 2018
Commented: Star Strider on 9 Dec 2018
How can the fitting curve can stat from [0,0]?
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Star Strider
Star Strider on 9 Dec 2018
The easiest way is to not specify a y-intercept in the model you want to fit.
Example —
x = 0:2:100;
y = 3E+3 - (x-50).^2 + (x-50) + randn(1, numel(x))*50;
B = [x(:).^2 x(:)] \ y(:);
Y = [x(:).^2 x(:)] * B;
figure
plot(x, y, '.', x, Y, '-r')
grid
Here, x begins at 0, and not including a y-intercept in the model is the same as forcing it through 0.
Experiment to get the result you want, with your model and data.
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Davide Cerra
Davide Cerra on 9 Dec 2018
thank you,
is thera an easy way to impose constraints in the curve fitting toolbox?
Star Strider
Star Strider on 9 Dec 2018
My pleasure.
You can impose some constraints with lsqcurvefit and the other Optimization Toolbox functions. This depends on what you want to constrain.
I don’t have the Curve Fitting Toolbox. (I can do everything I need with the Optimization and Statistics and Machine Learning Toolboxes.)

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