Tricks in MATLAB
From Computational Biophysics and Materials Science Group
Quick fitting
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/polyfit.html
a= 1:0.1:10; p = polyfit(a,exp(a),5); % Fits a fifth degree polynomial to exp(a) in the Least squares sense v = polyval(p,a); plot(a,v,a,exp(a)) % You will see the difference.
