1*5ddc57e5SXin Li<?xml version="1.0" ?> 2*5ddc57e5SXin Li<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 3*5ddc57e5SXin Li<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 4*5ddc57e5SXin Li<head> 5*5ddc57e5SXin Li<title>lmfit: a self-contained C library for Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimization and curve fitting</title> 6*5ddc57e5SXin Li<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 7*5ddc57e5SXin Li<link rev="made" href="mailto:root@localhost" /> 8*5ddc57e5SXin Li</head> 9*5ddc57e5SXin Li 10*5ddc57e5SXin Li<body> 11*5ddc57e5SXin Li 12*5ddc57e5SXin Li 13*5ddc57e5SXin Li 14*5ddc57e5SXin Li 15*5ddc57e5SXin Li 16*5ddc57e5SXin Li<link rel="stylesheet" href="podstyle.css" type="text/css" /> 17*5ddc57e5SXin Li 18*5ddc57e5SXin Li<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1> 19*5ddc57e5SXin Li 20*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>lmfit - Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimization</p> 21*5ddc57e5SXin Li 22*5ddc57e5SXin Li<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1> 23*5ddc57e5SXin Li 24*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p><b>lmfit</b> is a C library for Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimization and curve fitting. It is mature code, based on decades-old algorithms from the FORTRAN library MINPACK.</p> 25*5ddc57e5SXin Li 26*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>For fitting a data set {(x_i,y_i)|i=0,1,..} by a parametric curve f(x,t), see <b>lmcurve</b>(3).</p> 27*5ddc57e5SXin Li 28*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>For generic minimization of the Eucledian norm of parametric vector, see <b>lmmin</b>(3).</p> 29*5ddc57e5SXin Li 30*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>For an example how to use <b>lmmin</b>, see the source files <i>lmcurve.h</i> and <i>lmcurve.c</i>. Do not patch these files; copy and modify them to create your own, differently named version of <i>lmcurve_data_struct</i>, <i>lmcurve_evaluate</i>, and <i>lmcurve</i>.</p> 31*5ddc57e5SXin Li 32*5ddc57e5SXin Li<h1 id="COPYING">COPYING</h1> 33*5ddc57e5SXin Li 34*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>Copyright (C): 1980-1999 University of Chicago 2004-2015 Joachim Wuttke, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH</p> 35*5ddc57e5SXin Li 36*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>Software: FreeBSD License</p> 37*5ddc57e5SXin Li 38*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike</p> 39*5ddc57e5SXin Li 40*5ddc57e5SXin Li<h1 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1> 41*5ddc57e5SXin Li 42*5ddc57e5SXin Li 43*5ddc57e5SXin Li 44*5ddc57e5SXin Li<a href="http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/man/lmcurve.html"><b>lmcurve</b>(3)</a>, 45*5ddc57e5SXin Li<a href="http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/man/lmmin.html"><b>lmmin</b>(3)</a> 46*5ddc57e5SXin Li 47*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>Homepage: http://apps.jcns.fz-juelich.de/lmfit</p> 48*5ddc57e5SXin Li 49*5ddc57e5SXin Li<h1 id="BUGS">BUGS</h1> 50*5ddc57e5SXin Li 51*5ddc57e5SXin Li<p>Please send bug reports and suggestions to the author <[email protected]>.</p> 52*5ddc57e5SXin Li 53*5ddc57e5SXin Li 54*5ddc57e5SXin Li</body> 55*5ddc57e5SXin Li 56*5ddc57e5SXin Li</html> 57*5ddc57e5SXin Li 58*5ddc57e5SXin Li 59