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The FIT subroutine minimizes c2 using a modified version
of Bevington's CURFIT subroutine.
Bevington's book
Data reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences,
published by McGraw-Hill in 1969,
is an excellent introduction to statistics.
Anyone interested in a detailed understanding of how CURFIT works
should consult this book.
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- Uncertainties in parameter values are estimated
using the method described in
``Parameter Estimation in X-ray Astronomy'',
by M. Lampton, B. Margon, and S. Bowyer,
in Astrophysical Journal (1976) 208, 177.
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The spline is computed by solving equation 3.3.7 in the 1988 edition of
Numerical Recipes, by Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, and Vetterling.
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Details of Akima's method can be found in ``A new method of
Interpolations and smooth curve fitting based on local procedures''
by Hiroshi Akima in J. of the Ass. for Computing Machinery,
(1970) 17, 589-602. (An implementation is described in PPC Journal,
(1985) 12, no. 10, 11-14).
Web Page Maintained by: Dr. Lawrence E. Brown elwin@redshift.gsfc.nasa.gov
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