Fitting
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Fitting in QFF
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Construction
FitterFactory factory = FitterFactory.getInstance();
It is not possible to instantiate an IFitter object without passing some arguments to the create method. It is required to specify the name of the engine used to minimize the goodness-of-fit function, the data model containing the observations and the corresponding model values and the criterion to measure the quality of fitness.
Assume that we already have a data model, an instance of IFitModel. Then a fitter is created as follows:
IFitModel model = ...
IFitter fitter1 = factory.create("R", model, new WeightedSSE(model));
That's all. Now we have a fitter which minimizes the sum of squared errors between observed data and model data. A general-purpose optimizer of R is used to compute the minimum. It is the sum of squared errors, since the weights are all 1 by default. It is, of course, possible to change the weights on creation or at some later time.
Methods
The method getResult() returns an IFitResult object containing the relevant data of the fit process.
IFitResult result = fitter.getResult(); double sse = fitter.getOptimum(); double[] theta = fitter.getOptimalPoint();
