Second order polynomial coefficients with one equation
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Andreas Volden
on 30 Nov 2014
Commented: Image Analyst
on 19 Nov 2017
Hi! I have the following equation: y=c*u+d*u^2
Known variables are y and u for a given timeseries. c and d are unknown constants. Observe that it don't exist a constant term in the equation.
I'm sure that one solution lies within least squares, but I've sort of given up without assistance. Is there another, less complex way to solve this pherhaps?
Anyone who could help progress with this problem?
Thanks!
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Image Analyst
on 1 Dec 2014
I don't see Azzi's solution here any longer so I'll just give the standard least squares solution here:
This is your model:
y = alpha1 * u + alpha2 * u^2
I don't think you can use polyfit() because there's no constant term, but you can use the standard least squares formula
alpha = inv(x' * x) * x' * y; % Get estimate of the alphas.
Where x = an N rows by 2 columns matrix.
u(1), u(1)^2
u(2), u(2)^2
u(3), u(3)^2
u(4), u(4)^2
...
u(N), u(N)^2
Now of course alpha(1) is what you called c and alpha(2) is what you called d. This is pretty much just straight out of the least squares derivation in a textbook of mine.
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MariapL
on 19 Nov 2017
hi , I am new here, looking for a solution for the same problem. I am trying to use what you said in matlab, but its not working. Could you please take a look ? Maybe you will know what I am doing wrong. So I have the same equation: y=aN^2+bN , with coefficient c already set as 0. I am typing in matlab ( my date is a time series)
x=[0 1 2 3 4 5]
y=[100 250 680 150 200 221]
y = alpha1 * x + alpha2 * x^2
alpha = inv(x' * x) * x' * y
But I will need alpha1 and alpha2 to be known in matlab in order for this to work. I dont get what should I do here to get this two coefficient.
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Image Analyst
on 19 Nov 2017
No, you don't put X into the alpha equation, you put the matrix built from X, like this:
x=[0 1 2 3 4 5]
y=[100 250 680 150 200 221]
plot(x, y, 'b*');
A = [x', x'.^2]
alpha = inv(A' * A) * A' * y'
% yFit = alpha1 * x + alpha2 * x^2
yFit = alpha(1) * x + alpha(2) * x.^2
hold on;
plot(x, yFit, 'rd-');
grid on;
legend('Training data', 'Fitted Data');
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