Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Calculate R-squared value from gnuplot 'fit' output? Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:11:11 +0100 Lines: 7 Message-ID: <9m1evfFqhnU1@mid.dfncis.de> References: <9d8f352e-5f07-45c2-8eee-1fa5c58eeba0@f33g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de 5sriMLCZ+2Kkd3youULNbgLl+Oy7HNhWBaP1a+EfCgrF8oY/XKeLfFSblf Cancel-Lock: sha1:lVnsFo3yc98xIHMW3i2m0cb50Ds= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <9d8f352e-5f07-45c2-8eee-1fa5c58eeba0@f33g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:795 On 28.12.2011 21:14, Mike wrote: > Shouldn't I be able to calculate the R-squared value from this data? In a word: no. R^2 doesn't have any useful relation to what 'fit' calculates.