# Example 12 (c) - 2nd degree polynomial passing through the origin fit to BOD data # BOD = a1*Time + a2*Time^2 # Verified Solution: a1 = 0.354779, a2 = -0.008236
[ Time BOD 1 0.6 2 0.7 4 1.5 6 1.9 8 2.1 10 2.6 12 2.9 14 3.7 16 3.5 18 3.7 20 3.8 ] polyfit Time BOD 2 origin
BOD = a1Time + a2Time2
Variable
Value
95% confidence
a1
0.35477939
0.04417138
a2
-0.00823582
0.00272357
R^2
R^2adj
Rmsd
Variance
0.9766053
0.9740059
0.0521891
0.0366186

Residuals Plot for Polynomial of order 2 via origin

Source data points and calculated data points
Time
BOD
BOD calc
Delta BOD
1
1
0.6
0.34654357
0.25345643
2
2
0.7
0.67661551
0.02338449
3
4
1.5
1.2873445
0.21265553
4
6
1.9
1.8321869
0.06781312
5
8
2.1
2.3111427
-0.21114274
6
10
2.6
2.7242121
-0.12421206
7
12
2.9
3.0713948
-0.17139484
8
14
3.7
3.3526911
0.34730894
9
16
3.5
3.5681007
-0.06810074
10
18
3.7
3.7176239
-0.01762387
11
20
3.8
3.8012605
-0.00126046
General
Degree of polynomial = 2
Regression not including a free parameter
Number of observations = 11