[SciPy-User] multidimensional least squares fitting

[Daniel Mader]

Hi Josef,

thanks a lot for this quick answer, I'll definitely have a look at
your suggestion!

However, I'd be very interested if this is possible with leastsq, too?
Maybe I don't need it right now, but you never you what's next in life
:)

Thanks again,
greetings,

Daniel



2011/11/9  <josef.pktd at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Mader
> <danielstefanmader at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to do some rather simple multidimensional curve fitting.
>> Simple, because usually it's only a plane, or a weak 2nd order
>> surface.
>>
>> Here's the same question which I tried to follow, but I have no clue
>> how to feed the 2D arrays into leastsq():
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529184/simple-multidimensional-curve-fitting
>
> If you just want to estimate a multiple linear or polynomial function,
> then optimize.leastsq is overkill, linalg is enough.
>
> The premade solution is to use:
>
> statsmodels.sourceforge.net/generated/scikits.statsmodels.regression.linear_model.OLS.html
>
> Josef
>
>>
>> Likely I am just missing a small piece of information, and I'd be
>> happy to get a clue :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> and here's some code to demonstrate what I want and to get started,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> import pylab
>> import scipy
>> import scipy.optimize
>>
>> from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
>>
>> #import sys,os,platform
>> #if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>> #    home = os.environ['HOMESHARE']
>> #elif platform.system() == 'Linux':
>> #    home = os.environ['HOME']
>> #sys.path.append(home + '/python')
>> #sys.path.append(home + '/11_PythonWork')
>> #import pylabSettings
>>
>> ##******************************************************************************
>> ##******************************************************************************
>>
>> '''
>> f = p0 + p1*x + p2*y
>> '''
>>
>> ##------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> def __residual(params, f, x, y):
>>    '''
>>    Define fit function;
>>    Return residual error.
>>    '''
>>    p0, p1, p2 = params
>>    return p0 + p1*x + p2*y - f
>>
>> ## load raw data (=create some dummy data):
>> dataX = scipy.arange(0,11,1)
>> dataY = dataX/10.
>> dataZ = 0.5 + 1.1*dataX + 1.5*dataY
>> dataXX, dataYY = scipy.meshgrid(dataX,dataY)
>> dataZZ = 0.5 + 1.1*dataXX + 1.5*dataYY
>>
>> ## plot data
>> pylab.close('all')
>> fig = pylab.figure()
>> ax = Axes3D(fig)
>> ax.plot_wireframe(dataXX, dataYY, dataZZ)
>> ax.set_xlabel('x')
>> ax.set_ylabel('y')
>> ax.set_zlabel('z')
>> pylab.show()
>>
>> ## guess initial values for parameters
>> p0 = [0., 1., 1.]
>> print __residual(p0, dataZZ, dataXX, dataYY)
>>
>> ## works but is not 2D!
>> p1, p_cov = scipy.optimize.leastsq(__residual, x0=p0, args=(dataZ,
>> dataX, dataY))
>> print p1
>>
>> ## doesn't work :()
>> p1, p_cov = scipy.optimize.leastsq(__residual, x0=p0, args=(dataZZ,
>> dataXX, dataYY))
>> print p1
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