TWO-PARAMETER EXPONENTIAL AND RATIONAL FUNCTIONS FOR LEAST-SQUARE APPROXIMATIONS

Abstract

The report describes a computationally efficient scheme for approximating system characteristics by sums of exponentials or by rational functions. Results are applicable to a broad class of system optimizations, such as those in network synthesis and radar filter design, and to the understanding of cross-correlation measurements, radioactive decay, gas absorption, and mass spectrograph and ultracentrifuge analysis curves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0676974

Entities

People

  • M. I. Liechenstein

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Complex Variables
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Information Science
  • Notation
  • Object Code
  • Polynomials
  • Precision
  • Rational Functions
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Spectroscopy.
  • Statistical inference.