On 04-May-04 Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

I would greatly appreciate some help at finding some good documantation on SciLab especially the data fitting features. Most of web sites I've been suggested as containing plenty of worked out examples cannot be found by any browser.

I'm not necessarily hooked on SciLab. Any similar tool that provides a broad suite of different fitting methods (not just the Least Squared ...) will make me happy. Thank you in advance. MEM

Hi Maura, Depending on what you're trying to fit, and on what principles, you might be well served by R: http://www.r-project.org which offers just about any of the model-fitting methods you might possibly need from the world of statistical data analysis. On the other hand, if you want to make a "deterministic" fit (essentially interpolation) to numerical data which are not subject to "statistical scatter" in their determination, then this might not help too much. This is more in the "Numerical Analysis" area, where (as well as SciLab which I've not used since it early versions several years ago) there are very powerful packages such as octave (OS MatLab surrogate). You can also do this sort of thing in R (since it allows you to program pretty much any numerical routine you want), but you'd probably be better off with software where this sort of thing has already been built in on a well-designed and well-tested basis; OK if you know what you're doing, though. http://www.octave.org Hope this helps! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 04-May-04 Time: 10:23:10 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------