4.41 Tuesday, March 7, 2017

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[What are some common issues with fitting functions to data?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139038/what-are-some-common-issues-with-fitting-functions-to-data

Mathematica has numerous functions designed to, or capable of, fitting known functions, and finding unknown functions to match data sets. What are some common issues that come with finding those fits? ...

- asked by Feyre (20 votes), answered by Feyre (21 votes)

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[Notebook’s TaggingRules inherit too much] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139017/notebooks-taggingrules-inherit-too-much

Bug introduced in V10.4 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1

[CASE:3852725] was created

[...] I have forwarded an incident report to our developers with the information you provided. ...

- asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by Kuba (3 votes)

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[Is ExportString defective in V11?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138932/is-exportstring-defective-in-v11

Mathematica doesn’t do the best job of exporting figures with shading or transparency to vector graphics formats such as PDF.

A common trick employed here and elsewhere on the web to workaround this ...

- asked by Quantum_Oli (11 votes)

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[Commands to stop and continue evaluation without Debugger] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139377/commands-to-stop-and-continue-evaluation-without-debugger

I would like to stop the evaluation somehwere at a specifiy line in a notebook. Then I could for example check the state of some variables.

After that I would like to continue the evaluation from the ...

- asked by lio (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (9 votes)

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[How am I misusing EvenQ, or, how are EvenQ and (Mod[2,#]==0)& differently evaluated?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139281/how-am-i-misusing-evenq-or-how-are-evenq-and-mod2-0-differently-evalua

While working on a problem, I was using EvenQ in a RegionPlot. I came across this interesting case (simplified here for specificity). I expected to see a bunch of stripes, but got nothing:

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- asked by Piquan (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes)

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[Partition a list by count of a number] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138905/partition-a-list-by-count-of-a-number

I want to take this list when the 2 appear 3 times

SeedRandom[1] 
list = RandomChoice[{.2, .5, .3} -> {1, 2, 3}, 20] 
 
{3,1,3,1,2,1,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2} 
 
 
 
Hope to get {{3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1,  ...

- asked by yode (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (5 votes)

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[Why SciDraw can not handle the StreamPlot?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138926/why-scidraw-can-not-handle-the-streamplot

I find that the package SciDraw is suitable for preparing the figure in the thesis. When I use it to plot the line, it works well. For example

<<SciDraw` 
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- asked by Ice0cean (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (11 votes)

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[How to express trigonometric equation in terms of of given trigonometric function?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/434/how-to-express-trigonometric-equation-in-terms-of-of-given-trigonometric-functio

How can I express a trigonometric equation / identity in terms of a given trigonometric function?

using following trigonometric identities

Sin[x]^2+Cos[x]^2==1 
Sin[x]/Cos[x]==Tan[x] 
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- asked by Prashant Bhate (25 votes), answered by Simon (32 votes)

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[Calculate the 2D Fourier transform of an Image] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/29203/calculate-the-2d-fourier-transform-of-an-image

I am new to Mathematica, and using version 8.0.

I would like to calculate the 2D Fourier Transform of an Image with Mathematica and plot the magnitude and phase spectrum, as well as reconstruct the ...

- asked by user8727 (5 votes), answered by Nasser (27 votes)

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[Two-Point correlation function of Ising data is not giving expected results] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139016/two-point-correlation-function-of-ising-data-is-not-giving-expected-results

Due to the nature of my problem, and readers perhaps not having a physics background, I need to give some context to my problem which is intrinsic to it. The problem however is not a physics one, but ...

- asked by Luca Pontiggia (3 votes)

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[Evaluating an expectation expressed by a difficult expression] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138917/evaluating-an-expectation-expressed-by-a-difficult-expression

Background

I have a 2-dimensional space. The receiver is at the center. The locations of transmitters are given by the PPP \(\Phi \) with density \(\lambda \). The serving transmitter is the one that is ...

- asked by George Harnandez (3 votes)

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[How to control indentation of a cell relative to it’s parent?] http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138971/how-to-control-indentation-of-a-cell-relative-to-its-parent

Is there a stylesheet property that can be set to control the extra level of indentation of a cell in its group (I don’t want to specify absolute CellMargins)?

Carl suggests in the comments to use ...

- asked by user5601 (3 votes)