Program to search for curves which fit experimental data

[Dunhausen]

Does anyone remember a program (or know of something similar!) which, given a compilation of data, would search for equations which best fit the data?

The one I'm thinking of came out ~ a year ago. It was a Windows-only program but it worked fine under wine.

Unfortunately my time spent on google is not proving fruitful. :/

 

[zhermes]

Pretty much all math/database software will be able to do that, and all math-oriented programming languages, etc.

Excel will do it, also: gnuplot, idl, matlab, mathematica, 'grapher' on macs, etc.

 

[Dunhausen]

Hmm... I don't think from the ones of those I know how to use that they support such a feature (if so I'll be pretty miffed I never knew about it!). Fitting curves, yes, but you have to state explicitly the equation you are trying to fit.

In any case, I believe I have found what I was looking for
http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa