Multidimensional Fitting

[Robert Kern]

On 7/20/10 11:56 PM, D2Hitman wrote:
>
>
> Robert Kern-2 wrote:
>>
>> Don't try to fit a Gaussian to a histogram using least-squares. It's an
>> awful
>> way to estimate the parameters. Just use np.mean() and np.cov() to
>> estimate the
>> mean and covariance matrix directly.
>>
>
> Ok, what about distributions other than gaussian? Would you use leastsq in
> that case? If yes, i will post that to the scipy mailing list.

No, you would use a maximum likelihood method.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco