[racket-dev] Adding the new plot library [was: Re: Plot?]

Actually, it would probably make more sense to add fitting routines to the
science collection. They are definitely more general than just plotting.
And, the PLoT package only implements non-linear least squares fitting.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 09/29/2011 12:27 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>
>> You're referring to the code that implements `fit', right?
>>
>> Shouldn't we just keep that until someone does the same thing that
>> Neil has done for that code too?
>>
>
> Yes. I'll likely convert that one as well, but not right now. I've got
> quite a bit of experience with nonlinear function fitting, from another
> graduate program, a lifetime ago. (Or 3-4 years ago. or whatever.)
>
> A 'fit' module that does polynomial and more general least-squares fitting,
> linear and spline interpolation, and kernel density estimators would be
> really handy in quite a few situations.
>
> (Heck, let's just incorporate williams/science while we're at it. Batteries
> included!)
>
> Neil T
>
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