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Subject: exponential fitting?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi..
I'm dealing with this kind of data
 
x=[527.3756  546.1192  564.9728  586.4216  608.2959  630.5845  652.8730  674.8214  697.0359]

y=[193  204.1192  214.9728  219  222  224 222 219.1786  217]

and i would like to fit a*(1-exp(b*x))   (because i think it's the best curve that fits these points) and i tried to do it but i didn't get a good fit! What am i doing wrong?
I even tried to scale the data in order to place the first point in [0,0] but it didn't work as i expected (the exponential curve fit the points after it grows, so it fits the point with a line almost)

Hope you can help me! 
Regards,

Mario