curve-fitting

What we can do is plot some of the more common estimates — note that these are something of a curve-fitting exercise on our part because we don't have the full papers and workings at hand.

A Q&A Relevant to Catastrophyism 2010

It is essentially curve-fitting, which derives two metrics: slope and intercept.

The Risk Premium, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It's often a good idea, when curve-fitting, to transform "t" to "t - mean(t)" (in the lingo of R) so that the mean value of the predictor variable is zero.

A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010

Petey points out the important concern: is the formula prescient or is it just curve-fitting.

Matthew Yglesias » Draft Science 2007

This work was based on a curve-fitting technique that became known as the Hubbert curve.

Biophysical economics 2008

By contrast, in Peirce's principle, as a principle of curve-fitting or average predictive accuracy, the relevance of unity is objective.

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

I have provided not a trivialized “one curve” but a more appropriate experimental protocol of *my theory* of “two curves” with “rules” and “exceptions” according to customary curve-fitting.

Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb 2007

I also really doubt curve-fitting is being done in creation of the scribal record.

The Bias Method's Perfect Siberian Storm « Climate Audit 2007

What they care about is distracting people into minutiae of log vs. linear plots and curve-fitting, when the point is that we have been dumping obscene amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, raising the concentrations way way outside their natural range, which is reckless and stupid.

“The Entire Planet!” Sean 2006

The errors may all cancel out, but it should be kept in the back of ones mind that the curve-fitting was done and so one should ask if this might might impart a bias in a particular situation.

Positive and Negative Responders « Climate Audit 2006