Curve Fitting

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• fit a function to the data from the previous slide using fmin
• write a script that:
• loads the data
• plots your initial guess at a fit
• defines a cost function that is compatible with fmin
• calls fmin to fit the data
• plots the final results for the curve fit
• you will need to assign the variable x and y to the columns of data using matrix slice notation:
• x = data[:,0]# x is the zeroth column
• y = data[:,1]# y is the next column
• here is a template to get you started: curve_fit.py
• If you run this script it will generate a decent curve fit. How can you modify it to get a good curve fit link this one?