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- From: jerry@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Least Square Errors
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.142202.352@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 19:22:02 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.150541.15735@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University
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- In article <1992Sep9.150541.15735@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, rizzo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (anthony.r.rizzo) writes:
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- > My quandary is that the polynomial does not pass
- > through the one point of which I'm dead certain, (20,0).
-
- Let me summarize the posting, just to be sure we're working on the same
- problem. You have some data to which you would like to fit a 4-th degree
- polynomial, but the curve doesn't go where you expect it to.
-
- There are only two possibilities (well, 3, because I'm going to split #2):
-
- 1. The data must lie within sampling variability of the curve, or
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- 2. You've got model failure. If it's model failure, there are two
- possiblities
-
- 2.i. You've specified the wrong model, i.e., it's not a 4-th degree
- polynomial, or
- 2.ii. Something went wrong in the data collection process, i.e., you've
- managed to generate some invalid data.
-