I would like to ask how to perform nonlinear fitting with two fixed endpoints. Thank you very much for your answer.

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[Wesley]

I'm very sorry, but I'll add that it goes through two points A and B.

Answer 1

[Torsten]

If your fitting function depends on n parameters to be fitted, the condition that the function passes through 2 fixed points makes you loose 2 free parameters.

If you are not able to solve for 2 of the n parameters by the imposed 2 conditions, use "fmincon" for the fitting and define the two conditions in function "nonlcon".

E.g. if you have a polynomial of degree 3 for fitting

P(x) = a0 + a1*x + a2*x^2 + a3*x^3

and you want

P(x0) = y0, P(x1) = y1,

you have the two additional equations

y0 = a0 + a1*x0 + a2*x0^2 + a3*x0^3
y1 = a0 + a1*x1 + a2*x1^2 + a3*x1^3

Now you could solve for a0 = f0(a2,a3,x0,y0,x1,y1) , a1 = f1(a2,a3,x0,y0,x1,y1) and insert these expressions into the fitting function:

P(x) = f0(a2,a3,x0,y0,x1,y1) + f1(a2,a3,x0,y0,x1,y1)*x + a2*x^2 + a3*x^3

You see: now P only depends on 2 = 4-2 parameters to be fitted, namely a2 and a3.