Homework Statement
The larger context is that I'm looking at the scenario of fitting a polynomial to points with Gaussian errors using chi squared minimization. The point of this is to describe the likelihood of measuring a given parameter set from the fit. I'm taking N equally spaced x values...
Greetings, I'm new to the forums and just starting grad school. We recently had a homework problem to estimate the amount of time a pencil could stand on its tip without falling over. I remember an undergrad professor mentioning that he had been asked this problem on his orals so perhaps it is...