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Teacher Activities for Curve Fitting


Curve Fitting

Use this activity to help students understand how well a curve describes a data set. Learning goals include:
– how range, uncertainty and number of data points affect correlation coefficient and chi squared
– how correlation coefficient and chi squared can be used to indicate how well a curve describes the data relationship
– how to apply Curve Fitting to design better experiments

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Jan 18

2012

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