Preface (Curve Fitting Toolbox)

Curve Fitting Toolbox

Documentation Examples and Data Sets

To learn how to use the Curve Fitting Toolbox, you can follow the examples included in this guide. A quick way to locate these examples is with the example index, which you can access via the Help browser.

Some examples use data that is generated as part of the example, while other examples use data sets that are included with the toolbox or with MATLAB. These data sets are stored as MAT-files and are listed below.

Data Set
Description

carbon12alpha
Generated data associated with the nuclear reaction ¹²C(e,e',)⁸Be. The data set is based on the experiment described by reference [8] in Fitting Data.

census
United States population figures for the years 1790 to 1990 in 10-year increments. The data set is included with MATLAB.

enso
Measured data of monthly averaged atmospheric pressure differences between Easter Island and Darwin, Australia.

flvote2k
2000 U. S. presidential election results for the state of Florida. The data set was obtained from http://election.dos.state.fl.us/.

gauss3
Generated data consisting of two poorly resolved Gaussian peaks on an exponential background.

hahn1
Measured data of the thermal expansion of copper as a function of temperature.

Data Set	Description
`carbon12alpha`	Generated data associated with the nuclear reaction ¹²C(e,e',)⁸Be. The data set is based on the experiment described by reference [8] in Fitting Data.
`census`	United States population figures for the years 1790 to 1990 in 10-year increments. The data set is included with MATLAB.
`enso`	Measured data of monthly averaged atmospheric pressure differences between Easter Island and Darwin, Australia.
`flvote2k`	2000 U. S. presidential election results for the state of Florida. The data set was obtained from http://election.dos.state.fl.us/.
`gauss3`	Generated data consisting of two poorly resolved Gaussian peaks on an exponential background.
`hahn1`	Measured data of the thermal expansion of copper as a function of temperature.

The enso, gauss3, and hahn1 data sets were obtained from the Statistical Reference Datasets collection, which is provided by the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The Web site is http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd.

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