/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ /** * * This package provides classes to perform curve fitting. * * <p>Curve fitting is a special case of a least squares problem * were the parameters are the coefficients of a function <code>f</code> * whose graph <code>y=f(x)</code> should pass through sample points, and * were the objective function is the squared sum of residuals * <code>f(x<sub>i</sub>)-y<sub>i</sub></code> for observed points * (x<sub>i</sub>, y<sub>i</sub>).</p> * * */ package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization.fitting;