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If you are a mötorhead compu-stat monster, or just have access to good
software (like Mathematica), you may regress directly, fitting the
data,
to the solution (4),
to determine and . You can either put your initial observation for
in, or let it be a regression parameter and check it against your
actual observed value to provide some measure of validation.
James Powell
2000-07-31