Re: Curve fitting (was Re: Python Plugins)

[Daniel Carrera <dcarrera math toronto edu>]

[snip]
> > Can I do most of the work on my own and just come one day and say "here it
> > is"?
> I envision this having 2 parts
> 1) writing the fitter of your dreams
> 2) Looking at the interfaces for the current fitter and your fitter
>    and seeing if we can generalize the requirements so that future
>    work can be done in plugins.

Sounds good.

[snip]
> > About the GPL:
> > The algorithms I need are well-known.  Much of the code I need is already
> > in the public domain  (_Numerical_Recipes_).  Is there any problem using
> > public-domain code in GPL code?
> This is trickier.  I don't know what the licensing for code from
> numeric recipes is.  We'd better have a look before commiting any of
> it.  Which of their routines would you like to use ?  There is
> already a fair amount of simple linear algebra code in place (from R
> and other places).

I want to use LU-decomposition.

I think I'll also use the "Iterative Improvement" section.  However, this
concept is so simple that there can't be any issues using it (it's
first-year of college math).

I am currently prototyping my code in Python.  Eventually I'll port it to
C.

Cheers,
Daniel.