NAME:
fourfit
PURPOSE:
Fit one or more fourier terms to discrete (periodic) data.
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORY:
Function fitting
CALLING SEQUENCE:
fourfit,phase,data,sig,nterms,c,csig,YFIT=yfit,CHISQ=chisq
INPUTS:
phase - Fraction of period (mod or linearly increasing).
data - Measured values.
sig - Uncertainties of the data.
nterms - Number of fourier terms to fit. (2*nterms+1 unknowns)
OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS:
KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS:
OUTPUTS:
c - fourier series coefficients (see fourfunc)
csig - uncertainties of the coefficients
KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS:
COMMON BLOCKS:
SIDE EFFECTS:
RESTRICTIONS:
PROCEDURE:
MODIFICATION HISTORY:
94/10/10, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
2009/02/12, MWB, found and fixed a serious bug that caused the chisq
value to be WRONG. The old value was basically a reduced chisq
as if the number of free parameters were zero. Ouch.