Approach to general methods for fitting and their sensitivity

George Livadiotis

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 375, issue 2, 518-536

Abstract: This paper examines the performance of various fitting methods between the curves of two explicit functions. The approximating test function is considered to be one-parametrical first and multi-parametrical directly after. The widely used least square deviations constitutional method based on the Euclidean norm is not unique. Methods based on q-norm, for q⩾1, can also be defined. Emphasis on these methods, especially for q=1, is placed. Furthermore, any functional Φ fulfilling the norm's preconditions induces a metric for deviations, supporting a respective method for fitting through the minimization of total deviations. This dissertation addresses also the sensitivity of each method that is a measure of how abrupt the variation of the total deviations near its minimum is. We show that the least square method does not indispensably perform the largest sensitivity in regard to the alternative methods based on other q-norms. In addition, we represent the explicit general expression of normal equations, from which the fitting can be achieved, and the sensitivity, from which one can positively extract the suitable norm for a given model.

Keywords: Fitting; Normal equation; Norm; Sensitivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.09.027

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