Annotated Reading List Week 11
This reading list will provide a list of
material to read to keep up in the course. The list will contain options, where
you may read one of several treatments of the same material.
The
list:
Key:
Ell = Randy Ellis, Scientific
Computing Notes
Rec = Gerald
Recktenwald, Numerical Methods with
Matlab
Mol = Cleve Moler, Numerical
Computing with Matlab
Week
11:
Topics:- Least squares curve
fitting.
Class 31 of Ell is on
least squares curve fitting. We will actually cover a bit more than Ell does, so
this week reading Rec will be essential.
Chapter 9 of Rec is on least
squares curve fitting. We will only cover the material up to the end of section
9.2.2. The salient topics are the line fitting, transformations for fitting
apparently non-linear functions, and least squares fit to a linear combination
of functions. The only method I covered is by using the normal equations. The
method using QR-factorization is numerically more stable, but we will not
be covering this method this
term.
Chapter 5 of Mol is on
least squares curve fitting. The lion's share of this chapter deals with
QR-factorizaton, so it is not relevant for us. However, the first few pages of
the chapter, up to the end of section 5.3 are useful. In particular, since I
have assigned some homework from Mol, you should definitely read these few
pages.
Posted: Fri - November 25, 2005 at 09:57 AM