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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!usc!rpi!utcsri!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!butscher
  3. From: butscher@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Adrian Butscher)
  4. Subject: Gaussian Fitting
  5. Message-ID: <Bs7uuz.Bzs@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
  6. Sender: news@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (News Administrator)
  7. Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
  8. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:16:10 GMT
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  11. Does anyone know how to get MMA to fit a list of data points of the form
  12.  
  13. data = {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},...}
  14.  
  15. to a Gaussian curve parametrized as a Exp[b(x-c)^2]?  The program should
  16. find the coefficients a,b,c.
  17.  
  18. Thanks in advance.
  19.  
  20. Adrian
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