Fit Data to Any Conic Section
Description
Fit data to an ellipse, hyperbola, or parabola. Bootstrapping is available when needed. The conic curve can be rotated through an arbitrary angle and the fit will still succeed. Helper functions are provided to convert generator coefficients from one style to another, generate test data sets, rotate conic section parameters, and so on. References include Nikolai Chernov (2014) "Fitting ellipses, circles, and lines by least squares" ; A. W. Fitzgibbon, M. Pilu, R. B. Fisher (1999) "Direct Least Squares Fitting of Ellipses" IEEE Trans. PAMI, Vol. 21, pages 476-48; N. Chernov, Q. Huang, and H. Ma (2014) "Fitting quadratic curves to data points", British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 4, 33-60; N. Chernov and H. Ma (2011) "Least squares fitting of quadratic curves and surfaces", Computer Vision, Editor S. R. Yoshida, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 285-302.