Hi Monks,

I am really very stuck and wondered if I could pick your brains. My problem is that I am reading in a data file to my program from which a graph can be created like below. The graph should form a peak and I am interested in the value of the peak - which may or may not lie on a data-point. I was wondering if anyone new a way of finding the highest data-point?? I was thinking about perhaps using quadratic regression where you fit the best curve to the data, however, my maths is limited and I have no idea how to implement this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers! 


# e.g.  - much more numbers in the real file

my @array = ('62.6',    '62.8',    '63',    '63.3',    '63.5',    '63.
+7',    '64');
my @array2 = ('7.476',    '7.5219',    '7.5464',    '7.5516',    '7.55
+04',    '7.5372',    '7.518');

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In reply to mathsy question: finding max of curve from discrete points by Anonymous Monk

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