How to use Maxima to do a nonlinear fit?



>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Gloeckner <RGloeckner at dki.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

    Robert> ** Reply Requested When Convenient **
    Robert> Hello,

    Robert> is there a package/code-snippet for fitting nonlinear functions to datasets?

There is the lbfgs package written by Robert Dodier.  Perhaps that
will do what you want.  Type "load(lbfgs);" to load it.

I have a translation of minpack (see netlib) that might be useful, but
it's not integrated with maxima.

Ray