Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.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: fit gives different results for identical functions with different var names Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:31:37 +0100 Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <4da37e57-cdcd-474e-a3c3-7e98f09b1cb6@googlegroups.com> <5c431d1b-bbc9-418b-8707-588d0ff79beb@googlegroups.com> <50D4A8B1.5060708@t-online.de> <128492cd-ff3e-4d40-a6a1-1314f9ec2c92@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 8TeSUb+4AlFoYRTYB2B+fgW8P1S0qDNeGZnHPcsdLE0+yfTyo13SuNxr8nYhiyjnkmcAni6JBV Cancel-Lock: sha1:N8LfJ7y0nNU8nema+Qa/wsnSHl8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <128492cd-ff3e-4d40-a6a1-1314f9ec2c92@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1555 On 21.12.2012 20:54, Marcus Hanson wrote: > I see. So does this mean that GNUPlot assumes that the independent > variable will be 'x'? By default: yes. See "help fit" (first paragraph after the syntax outline) or "help set dummy" for how to change that assumption.