Fit exponential curve through data points in Matlab

Question

Having data of an exponential decay available, I would like to fit a curve through it. How can I do that in Matlab?

Answer 1

cftool(X,Y) is the way to go. here's some linkage:

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Answer 2

If by fit you mean least squares, you should try lsqcurvefit

Answer 3

Try this:

ft=fittype('exp1');
cf=fit(time,data,ft)

This is when time and data are your data vectors; time is the independent variable and data is the dependent variable.

This will give you the coefficients of the exponential decay curve.

Answer 4

Linearise, least squares, delinearise :-)

Answer 5

Matlab has a function called polyfit. It can fit curve to a data which can be represented in the form a*X^n+b*X^(n-1)+.....z. However if you are sure that the data is of some exponential decay you can try taking logarithm of the data first and then using the polyfit function. I thing that will work.