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Re: Robust curve fitting




Another point to mention.  These MINPACK routines work under both IDL
versions 4 and 5.

Craig

> 
> I recently had an opportunity to translate the MINPACK-1 curve-fitting
> package into IDL.  MINPACK is a minimization package available from
> netlib, and has an excellent reputation.  I have found that it is much
> more robust, able to cope with singular matrices, etc.  Since people
> have been requesting, I polished it up a little bit, and am making it
> available via my IDL web page:
> 
> http://astrog.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/idl.html
> 

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