Getting the r-squared value using curve_fit

Question

I am a beginner with both Python and all its libs. But I have managed to make a small program that works as intended. It takes a string, counts the occurence of the different letters and plots them in a graph and then applies a equation and its curve.¨ Now i would like to get the r-squared value of the fit.

The overall idea is to compare different kinds of text from articles on different levels and see how strong the overall pattern is.

Is just an excersise and I am new, so a easy to understand answer would be awesome.

The code is:

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Answer 1

Computing :

The value can be found using the mean (), the total sum of squares (), and the residual sum of squares (). Each is defined as:

where is the function value at point . Taken from Wikipedia.

From scipy.optimize.curve_fit():

• You can get the parameters (popt) from curve_fit() with

  popt, pcov = curve_fit(f, xdata, ydata)

• You can get the residual sum of squares () with

  • residuals = ydata- f(xdata, *popt)
  • ss_res = numpy.sum(residuals**2)

• You can get the total sum of squares () with

  ss_tot = numpy.sum((ydata-numpy.mean(ydata))**2)

• And finally, the -value with,

  r_squared = 1 - (ss_res / ss_tot)