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Re: How to extract point data.

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On 20.10.2011 09:05, Naren wrote:

> The example i gave is only to illustrate my problem. My data actually
> does not follow any predictable standard fuction. I do not know what
> function to fit the data to.

In that case, you really should have stopped for a moment to think about 
whether hat you're trying to do actually can be done at all, with any 
useful degree of reliability.

If you don't have any idea what function those data might be supposed to 
follow, then the thing you asked for:

 > _the_ Y-value for a given X-value [emphasis mine]

is not defined, and any method you come up with to compute it has to be, 
by definition, incorrect.

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How to extract point data. Naren <a.narendiran@gmail.com> - 2011-10-19 10:12 -0700
  Re: How to extract point data. Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> - 2011-10-19 23:38 +0200
    Re: How to extract point data. Naren <a.narendiran@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 00:05 -0700
      Re: How to extract point data. Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2011-10-21 22:54 +0200
  Re: How to extract point data. sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-10-19 14:42 -0700
    Re: How to extract point data. Naren <a.narendiran@gmail.com> - 2011-10-20 00:08 -0700
      Re: How to extract point data. James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2011-10-20 19:34 -0400
      Re: How to extract point data. Ingo Thies <ingo.thies@gmx.de> - 2011-10-21 09:02 +0200
  Re: How to extract point data. ab <ab.3942@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-27 00:46 -0700

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