[SciPy-User] Fitting a system of ODEs to data

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:19, C. Campbell<lujitsu at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a system of coupled multivariate ODEs which I would like to fit to
> experimental data. If I am reading the SciPy documentation correctly, there
> exist built in functions to handle systems of multivariate nonlinear
> functions (Broyden's and Anderson's methods), but not systems of ODEs. After
> reading up on some general methods, it looks like it would be a real bear to
> write an implementation myself.
>
> I posed this issue to an expert Python programmer with whom I am acquainted,
> and he suggested using Mathematica to address my problem. I have essentially
> no experience with Mathematica, though, so before biting that particular
> bullet I thought I'd check with the larger community to see if there is
> Python/SciPy solution.

I answered a similar question over on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164198/fitting-parameters-of-odes-while-using-octave-matlab-ode-solver/1336822#1336822

-- 
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