From: swlab <sw...@co...> - 2005-02-08 19:22:01
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On Tuesday 08 February 2005 05:26, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: > Dan Jacobson wrote: > > how many burgers might I be expected to sell at 7:00? > > then the method must be well buried in the docs. > > You're completely off. Whatever made you think gnuplot was an economic > prediction tool? It's a *plotting* program, not a clairvoyant or > marketing expeting. I gonna try to rephrase what Dan has in mind: Given a (x,y) dataset and a fit through the data, how can we get the predicted y for an x out of the initial range of the data ? Then, play with the range option of your plot. The real tricky part is to get the initial fit (ie, to know what function you have to fit) -- Soil & Water Laboratory Dept. of Biological & Environmental Engineering Cornell University Riley-Robb Hall ITHACA, NY 14853 |