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<p>Thank you so much Anonymonk, now I am getting somewhere. The fragment of code I am now using, culled from a larger script goes like this ...</p>
<code>
# OK, now lets use linear regression to fit
my $reg = Statistics::Regression->new( $data->{Name}, [ "Const", "Theta1", "Theta2" ] );
# Add data points
for ( @{$data->{values}} ) {
# some time conversion goes on here to make times into Epoch ...
my $epoch = mktime($s, $m, $h, $D, $M-1, $Y);
my $x = $_->[2];
print "\$reg->include ( $epoch, [1, $x, ". $x**2 ." ] )\n";
$reg->include ( $epoch, [1, $x, $x**2 ] );
}
print "Results are ...\n";
$reg->print();
</code>
<p>Here is some output, now mostly it is working, but then on one set of data it chokes... </p>
<code>
# This is printed by the lines above, this one works fine...
$reg->include ( 1491858157, [1, 95.24, 9070.6576 ] )
$reg->include ( 1491944593, [1, 95.24, 9070.6576 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492030986, [1, 95.22, 9066.8484 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492117236, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492203637, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492290038, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492376435, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492462840, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492549241, [1, 95.23, 9068.7529 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492621259, [1, 95.24, 9070.6576 ] )
Results are ...
****************************************************************
Regression '3116.dpepicqt.SYSAUX'
****************************************************************
Name Theta StdErr T-stat
[0='const'] -22405806112434.5120 16790271247707.7460 -1.33
[1='Theta1'] 470587750270.0963 352619498612.0823 1.33
[2='Theta2'] -2470766737.1275 1851377334.2664 -1.33
R^2= 0.206, N= 10, K= 3
****************************************************************
# This one chokes ...
$reg->include ( 1491858157, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1491944593, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492030986, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492117236, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492203637, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492290038, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492376435, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492462840, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492549241, [1, 93.6, 8760.96 ] )
$reg->include ( 1492621259, [1, 93.64, 8768.4496 ] )
Results are ...
****************************************************************
Regression '3116.dpepicqt.SYSTEM'
****************************************************************
Report.pl::Statistics::Regression:standarderrors: I cannot compute the theta-covariance matrix for variable 3 0
at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Statistics/Regression.pm line 619.
Statistics::Regression::standarderrors(Statistics::Regression=HASH(0x44dfe90)) called at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Statistics/Regression.pm line 430
Statistics::Regression::print(Statistics::Regression=HASH(0x44dfe90)) called at Report.pl line 125
main::predict(HASH(0x4340ec8), 10) called at Report.pl line 85
</code>
<p>I am guessing I may not have enough variation in that data for it to find an optimum, but if anyone can see I am barking up the wrong tree, please do shout</p>
<p>Cheers,<br>R.</p>
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<h3>Update</h3>
I have now tried it with a cubic term, and it failed on an earlier data set. Then I tried it with just the Constant and an X terms, no square or higher, and it ran the complete set. So now I can get a best fit line. Next step is to see if I can feed it some guess values for the theta vector.
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