Quality of Curve Fitting

1. Quality of Curve Fitting P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department

2. Goodness of fit and the correlation coefficient A measure of how good the regression curve as a representation of the data. It is possible to fit two curves to data by (a) treating x as the independent variable : y=ax+b, y as the dependent variable or by (b) treating y as the independent variable and x as the dependent variable. This is described by a relation of the form x= a'y +b'. The procedure followed earlier can be followed again to find best values of a� and b�.

8. Correlation Coefficient The sign of the correlation coefficient is determined by the sign of the covariance. If the regression line has a negative slope the correlation coefficient is negative while it is positive if the regression line has a positive slope. The correlation is said to be perfect if ? = � 1. The correlation is poor if ? � 0. Absolute value of the correlation coefficient should be greater than 0.5 to indicate that y and x are related! In the case of a non-linear fit a quantity known as the index of correlation is defined to determine the goodness of the fit. The fit is termed good if the variance of the deviates is much less than the variance of the y�s. It is required that the index of correlation defined below to be close to �1 for the fit to be considered good.

11. Multi-Variable Regression Analysis Cases considered so far, involved one independent variable and one dependent variable. Sometimes the dependent variable may be a function of more than one variable. For example, the relation of the form

16. Power Law Curve for Multi Variable Regression Analysis

17. Newton�s Law of Viscosity/Cooling 1701: Sir Newton published a paper titled: Scala Graduum Caloris. How to Realize the Law? A general heat transfer surface may not be isothermal !?! Fluid temperature will vary from inlet to exit !?!?! The local velocity of flow will also vary from inlet to exit ?!?! How to use Newton�s Law in a Real life?

18. Scale Analysis

23. Reynolds Analogy

24. Reynolds Analogy

25. Prandtl�s Momentum Boundary Layer

28. Boundary Layer Analogies Heat and Mass Transfer Analogy: Two or more processes governed by dimensionless equations of the same form. Accordingly heat and mass transfer relations for a particular geometry are interchangeable.

31. Closing Remarks The goal of any experimental activity is to get the maximum realistic information about a system. It is not always true that higher number of measurements will give maximum realistic information. Larger the number of measurements, huge will be the total error that enters into the measurement equation. Larger number of measurements lead to more costly experimentation. It is important to obtain maximum realistic information with the minimum number of well designed experiments. An experimental program recognizes the major �factors� that affect the outcome of the experiment. The factors may be identified by looking at all the quantities that may affect the outcome of the experiment.

32. The most important among these may be identified using a few exploratory experiments or from past experience or based on some underlying theory or hypothesis. The next thing one has to do is to choose the number of levels for each of the factors. The data will be gathered for these values of the factors by performing the experiments by maintaining the levels at these values.