Chapter 2 has been completely restructured, rewritten, and renamed.
The following has now been posted.
The name of the pdf file is now mbe2plotfit.pdf.
1. --mbe2plotfit.pdf : July 13, 2009, Maxima 5.18.1, 25 pages
2. --mbe2toc.txt : Detailed Table of Contents, July, 13, 2009
3. --mbe2code.txt : Code input text file: July, 13, 2009, Maxima 5.18.1
4. --coffee.dat : Coffee Cooling Data File: July, 13, 2009, Maxima 5.18.1
Chapter 2 Topics
Introduction to plot2d,
First Steps with plot2d,
Parametric Plots,
Line Width and Color Controls,
Discrete Data Plots: Point Size, Color, and Type Control,
More gnuplot_preamble Options,
Using qplot for Quick Plots of One or More Functions,
Least Squares Fit to Experimental Data,
Maxima and Least Squares Fits: lsquares_estimates,
Syntax of lsquares_estimates,
Coffee Cooling Model,
Experiment Data: file_search, printfile, read_nested_list, and makelist,
Least Squares Fit of Coffee Cooling Data
Ted Woollett
http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett/