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Re: Dip-meter again
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 10, 10:56 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 10, 10:56 -0400
Richard, > As you say in your P.S., you HAVE to have a functional model > describing your data for parametric least squares. So your proposed > numerical example is incomplete. Of course. The example was given just to simply illustrate the statement in the PS. There is NO appropriate mathematical model for the anomalous dip. (The model should explain the change of the dip with time!) That's why statistics will not help with the dip. Alex.