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Fitting Surge Functions to Data
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Gordon, Sheldon P. – PRIMUS, 2006
The problem of fitting a surge function to a set of data such as that for a drug response curve is considered. A variety of different techniques are applied, including using some fundamental ideas from calculus, the use of a CAS package, and the use of Excel's regression features for fitting a multivariate linear function to a set of transformed…
Descriptors: Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Calculus, Transformations (Mathematics), Mathematical Applications