%********************************************************************* %Csci 2031 %Assignment 6 %Problem 7 %Compare least squares difference of the four different approximants %********************************************************************* function[]=problem7 y=[ 111.98 113.54 112.89 110.69 113.62 114.35 118.77 121.19 118.40 121.33 122.67 123.64 124.07 124.49 120.19 120.38 117.50 118.75 120.50 125.09 123.66 121.55 123.90 123.00 122.34 119.65 121.89 120.56 122.04 122.04 121.26 127.17 132.75 132.30 130.33 132.35 132.39 134.07 137.73 138.10 138.91 138.12 140.00 143.75 143.70 134.89 137.26 146.00 143.85 141.43 131.76 135.00 136.49 131.85 135.25 135.03 134.01 126.39 125.00 127.79 124.03 119.90 117.05 122.06 122.22 127.57 132.51 ]; %transpose of stock information yData=y'; xData=1:1:67; %Least Squares F1=polyfit(xData, yData,1); %linear F2=polyfit(xData, yData,3); %cubic F3=polyfit(xData, yData, 8);%degree 8 %Cubic Spline approx. counter=1; yData2=zeros(1,12); %extract every 6 element out of the original data array for i=1:6:67 yData2(counter)=yData(i); counter=counter+1; end xData2=1:6:67; tt=1:0.1:67; Fs= spline(xData2,yData2); Ys= ppval(Fs, xData2); %Evaluate at xData points Y1= polyval(F1, xData); Y2= polyval(F2, xData); Y3= polyval(F3, xData); %Error sums e1 = sum ( (Y1-yData).^2) e2 = sum( (Y2-yData).^2) e3 = sum( (Y3-yData).^2) es = sum((Ys-yData2).^2) end