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| author | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2015-11-15 12:49:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2015-11-15 12:49:21 -0700 |
| commit | cf66c68c6a560c934f4a767934573c7f85dcb4ae (patch) | |
| tree | a0f5dc11ac9624e60f92b3dba6117ab85d152be8 /numpy | |
| parent | eeba2cbfa4c56447e36aad6d97e323ecfbdade56 (diff) | |
| parent | 35c2d9c9bb597be696005e325742fb8ae3e8f117 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-cf66c68c6a560c934f4a767934573c7f85dcb4ae.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #6681 from griffin-h/polyfit/weight_doc_update
add clarification of weights to documentation for polyfit
Diffstat (limited to 'numpy')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/polynomial.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py index de9376300..2f677438b 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/polynomial.py +++ b/numpy/lib/polynomial.py @@ -427,7 +427,8 @@ def polyfit(x, y, deg, rcond=None, full=False, w=None, cov=False): default) just the coefficients are returned, when True diagnostic information from the singular value decomposition is also returned. w : array_like, shape (M,), optional - weights to apply to the y-coordinates of the sample points. + Weights to apply to the y-coordinates of the sample points. For + gaussian uncertainties, use 1/sigma (not 1/sigma**2). cov : bool, optional Return the estimate and the covariance matrix of the estimate If full is True, then cov is not returned. |