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Fit Postprocessing

Plotting, outliers, residuals, confidence intervals, validation data, integrals and derivatives, generate MATLAB® code

After fitting a curve or surface, use postprocessing methods to analyze if the fit to the data is accurate. After creating a fit, you can apply various postprocessing methods for plotting, interpolation, and extrapolation; estimating confidence intervals; and calculating integrals and derivatives. You can also use postprocessing methods to determine the outliers of a fit.

You can use Curve Fitting Toolbox™ functions to evaluate a fit by plotting the residuals and the prediction bounds. For more information, see Evaluate Curve Fit. To compare fits and generate MATLAB code interactively, use the Curve Fitter app.

Apps

Curve FitterFit curves and surfaces to data

Functions

cfitConstructor for cfit object
coeffnamesCoefficient names of cfit, sfit, or fittype object
coeffvaluesCoefficient values of cfit or sfit object
confintConfidence intervals for fit coefficients of cfit or sfit object
differentiateDifferentiate cfit or sfit object
fevalEvaluate cfit, sfit, or fittype object
integrateIntegrate cfit object
plotPlot cfit or sfit object
predintPrediction intervals for cfit or sfit object
probvaluesProblem-dependent parameter values of cfit or sfit object
quad2dNumerically integrate sfit object
sfitConstructor for sfit object

Topics

  • Create Multiple Fits in Curve Fitter App

    Workflow for refining your fit, comparing multiple fits, and using statistics to determine the best fit.

  • Explore and Customize Plots

    In the Curve Fitter app, display fit, residual, surface, or contour plots; display prediction bounds and multiple plots; use zoom, pan, data cursor, and outliers modes; change colormap of surface and contour plots, change axes limits and print plots.

  • Export Fit from Curve Fitter App to Simulink Lookup Table

    Export a surface fit from the Curve Fitter app to a Simulink® 2-D lookup table.

  • Remove Outliers

    Remove points interactively or exclude them by rule in the Curve Fitter app. Alternatively, exclude outliers by using the fit function. You can exclude data based on their distance from the model, in standard deviations.

  • Select Validation Data

    Compare your fit with validation data or test set in the Curve Fitter app.

  • Generate Code and Export Fits to the Workspace

    Generate MATLAB code from an interactive session in the Curve Fitter app, recreate fits and plots, and analyze fits in the workspace.

  • Evaluate Curve Fit

    This example shows how to work with a curve fit.

  • Evaluate Surface Fit

    This example shows how to work with a surface fit.

  • Evaluating Goodness of Fit

    After fitting data with one or more models, evaluate the goodness of fit using plots, statistics, residuals, and confidence and prediction bounds.

  • Compare Fits in Curve Fitter App

    Find the best fit by comparing visual and numeric results, including fitted coefficients and goodness-of-fit statistics.

  • Compare Fits Programmatically

    This example shows how to fit and compare polynomials up to sixth degree using Curve Fitting Toolbox™, fitting some census data.

  • Residual Analysis

    The residuals from a fitted model are defined as the differences between the response data and the fit to the response data at each predictor value.

  • Confidence and Prediction Bounds

    Curve Fitting Toolbox software lets you calculate confidence bounds for the fitted coefficients, and prediction bounds for new observations or for the fitted function.

  • Differentiating and Integrating a Fit

    This example shows how to find the first and second derivatives of a fit, and the integral of the fit, at the predictor values.

Featured Examples
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