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Hi,

Is it possible to obtain a best-fit ellipse given a few known points:
 . One of the vertices
 . several points (up to 5) located on one of the quadrants which is adjacent to the known vertex point

I tried using the FitEllipse function but it doesn't appear to work well with the data that I have. Is there another function that works similarly to FitEllipse using the points that I have?

Thanks