New GSL extension for multi-dimensional least squares fits

[Patrick Alken]

Well if enough people find it useful we can look at putting it
in the main core; for now I thought it'd be best as an extension
so people can try it out and give feedback.

Patrick Alken

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:29:04AM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 27/09/2007, Patrick Alken <patrick.alken@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I have made a new GSL extension library to aid in multi-dimensional
> > least squares fits (ie: when your observations depend on more than
> > one variable). It can be tricky to construct the least squares matrix
> > X when you have 3 or higher dimensions in your model, so this extension
> > is designed to make it very simple to construct the matrix.
> >
> >   It is located at:
> >
> >   http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~alken/gsl/ndlinear-1.0.tar.gz
> >
> > and includes texi documentation in doc/ as well as an example program
> > with plots of the results.
> 
> Without having looked at the code or tested it, I'd just like to
> mention that I'd love to see such functionality in the core GSL.
>