Star Strider

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How Do I Fitting a 3 Unknown Parameter Model?
There are several functions available to estimate the parameters. This uses fminsearch because everyone has it: VFTfcn = @(b,...

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Matlab interpolation between two surfaces
Experiment with this: x = linspace(-5, 5, 20); y = x; [X,Y] = ndgrid(x,y); z = @(x,y,s,h,a) a .* exp(s*(x.^2+y.^2)) + h; ...

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complementary error function (surf plot)
Add: [X,T] = ndgrid(x,t); and it works: x = linspace(0,10^(-6),20); t = linspace(0,5,5); [X,T] = ndgrid(x,t); u0 = 10^(-...

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Solving equations using Laplace transform
Unless you are solving a partial differential equation, such that the Laplace transform produces an ordinary differential equati...

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Answers editor seems to be broken
The website was updated. I had the same problem, and it turned out that Rena’s suggestion that clearing the Firefox cache solve...

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Error using atan2 Inputs must be real.
If you want to compute the phase angle of a complex number, use the angle function.

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How to get unknown number of variables to be all same length through interpolation
Try this approach: V1 = sort(rand(1,5)); % Original Vector V2 = sort(rand(1,10)...

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ode15s error（Genetic algorithm for differential equation parameter identification）
I cannot follow your code. See Ode system solution with unknown constant for one example of an approach that generally works....

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Chi-squared for multiple groups
Consider Perform One-Way ANOVA instead.

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ODE with time-varying coefficients
The Answers Comment and Answer windows are malfunctioning. I am having serious problems with the lack of formatting and other o...

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designing a chebyshev type 2 high pass filter
Start with the cheb2ord function to define all the variables appropriately.

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Differential eq of a hot storage tank
The time intervals the ODE solvers use are whatever you define them to be, since they have no inherent unit. In the ‘m’ assignm...

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Output numeric array from symbolic evaluation
After the loops: T = vpa(T) creates the entire array as decimal fractions.

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How can I draw the fitted curve and find the initial slope of the attached plot?
Try this: D = readmatrix('Example.xlsx'); x = D(:,1); y = D(:,2); p = polyfit(x, y, 3); yfit = polyval(p, x); dp = poly...

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Mathematical Modelling for parametric analysis
See the documentation for regress to understand how to work with the ‘carsmall.mat’ file. You should have it, since it’s been...

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Invalid indexing for dsolve
The equations are nonlinear, and for most nonlinear differential equations, an analytic solution does not exist. Try this ins...

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How to extract numbers from .dat file
One option: fidi = fopen('Nasis Vangelis.dat','rt'); k = 1; while ~feof(fidi) readline = fgetl(fidi); C{k} = regex...

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How to Plot a Continues Tiime Signal
I have no idea what ‘x(t)’ is. I usually code the uint step function as: u = @(t) t>=1; althoug other options are possible...

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read data from delimited text file
This is one of the more difficult files I have managed to import! See if this does what you want: fidi = fopen('water.txt')...

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A simple LowPass Filter
Using a window inplies a FIR filter. Start with the fir1 function to design it, and freqz to analyse it. Filter your signal wi...

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Printing my Integration step by step
Use cumtrapz instead of trapz: L=F./W; lambda= 2*cumtrapz(W,L) figure plot(W, lambda) grid xlabel('W') ylabel('\int\la...

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Cell-Matrix, I can't extract values
Change the code slightly to: F = openfig('phi_1.fig'); ax = gca; lines = findobj(ax, 'Type','Line'); for k = 1:numel(lines)...

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Mesh with griddata, how eliminate undesidered extra surface
Without your data, posting an exact solution (if one even exists) is not possible. One possibility is that your data are actu...

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why surface plot is connecting its edges?
Try this for the file provided, and the others that likely have similar formats. Note — It is only necessary to reshape the ...

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Help finding R^2 value for curves
I appreciate your quoting my code! The value is not difficult to calculate. One example using a much simpler single-var...

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Predicting the kinetic constant of a reaction based on experimental data
If you have the Global Optimization Toolbox, the code I attached will estimate the parameters with reasonable accuracy, although...

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Trouble with my function
You need to tell your ‘derivative’ function what ‘y’ is. Changing ‘derivative’ to an anonymous function (for my convenience) ...

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Error using plot3 - Vectors must be the same length
See if this does what you want: theta = [0:0.101:pi/2,3*pi/2:0.01:2*pi]; rho = sqrt(cos(theta)); [x,y]=pol2cart(theta,rho); ...

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Plotting a Sequence over a Given Interval
I have no idea. I would just do something like this, and hope for the best with respect to whatever that exp() call is suppos...

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help pease, how to use syms? why this is not working?
It is working. Ths eolution is simply not as straightforward as it might first appear. Consider: syms h Q = 10; k = 50...

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