Introductory Physics Lab B

Physics 234

Below you find a handout on data analysis and least-squares fits that contains a discussion on how to obtain error estimates of the fitting parameters in a least-squares fit.

Handout Data Analysis and Least-Squares Fits (compressed Postscript file, 9 pages, 50kB; use "gunzip" to decompress)

Martin Siegert
Academic Computing Services, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada

phone: (604) 291-4691
fax  : (604) 291-4242
email: siegert@sfu.ca