Curve fitting: A presentation
curve-fitting.pdf (168 KB)
I delivered a talk on curve fitting today in the physics department seminar room. This is the presentation I used. The objective of the talk was to familiarize everyone with the chi-square distribution and chi-square fitting without focusing too much on the implementation details. Since the complete audience didn’t have background knowledge of probability theory, I had to briefly touch up some concepts like Cumulative Distribution Function and Probability Density Function.
Overall, I think the talk came out alright, although it was apparent that some of my fundamentals were holed. It’s a miracle it even came out, considering that I was delivering it on a paracetamol-suppressed headache and fever.
Finally, LaTeX + Beamer is too awesome!
Edits: The zeroth central moment is one, not zero.
Tags: math, presentation