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Simfish
Apr29-11, 01:45 AM
With MATLAB or something. Basically, I just have a bunch of data points where I should do a linear least squares fit, but each of the points have error bars around them.

I like Serena
Apr30-11, 05:36 AM
With MATLAB or something. Basically, I just have a bunch of data points where I should do a linear least squares fit, but each of the points have error bars around them.

What you would need is a "weighted least squares fit".
The points must be weighted by 1/variance.

According to google:
In MATLAB, the LSCOV function can perform weighted-least-square regression.