[SciPy-User] Fitting a Gaussian

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 01/17/2011 07:17 PM, scipy-user-request at scipy.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:53:54 -0600
> From: Benedikt Riedel<briedel at wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-User] Fitting a Gaussian
> Yeah that is what I was trying to do. I am trying to get around using the
> least squares method, but I guess I am stuck with that. Thanks for the
> clarification.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>

I haven't followed all the details of this thread, but have you tried 
taking the first few moments of your distribution curve, using something 
like cumtrapz?  From the moments you can calculate the total area, the 
centroid, and the variance.

Jonathan