Audience
Professionals seeking a nonlinear regression and curve fitting solution
About NLREG
NLREG is a powerful statistical analysis program that performs linear and nonlinear regression analysis, surface and curve fitting. NLREG determines the values of parameters for an equation, whose form you specify, that cause the equation to best fit a set of data values. NLREG can handle linear, polynomial, exponential, logistic, periodic, and general nonlinear functions. Unlike many "nonlinear" regression programs that can only handle a limited set of function forms, NLREG can handle essentially any function whose form you can specify algebraically. NLREG features a full programming language with a syntax similar to C for specifying the function that is to be fitted to the data. This allows you to compute intermediate work variables, use conditionals, and even iterate in loops. With NLREG it is easy to construct piecewise functions that change form over different domains. Since the NLREG language includes arrays, you can even use tabular look-up methods to define the function.