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Malamala
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Hello! I need to make a straight line fit to 8 points, with errors on them. The data is like this ##x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]##, ##y=[377.488 691.191 , 1030.319, 1428.801, 1753.884, 2113.065 , 2398.642, 2797.664]##, ##y_{err}=[97.145, 131.452, 160.492, 188.997, 209.397, 229.840, 244.879, 264.464]##. The problem is that the errorbars (which are basically Poisson errors) are a lot bigger than the spread of the data. Hence I end up with a reduced chi-squared of 0.02. Is there anything I can do? The values of the fits are reasonable (given theoretical arguments), but I am not sure what to make out of this small reduced chi-square.