I need to interpolate data coming from an instrument using a gaussian fit. To this end I thought about using the curve_fit function from scipy.
Since I'd like to test this functionality on fake data before trying it on the instrument I wrote the following code to generate noisy gaussian data and to fit it:
from scipy.optimize import curve_fit
import numpy
import pylab
# Create a gaussian function
def gaussian(x, a, b, c):
val = a * numpy.exp(-(x - b)**2 / (2*c**2))
return val
# Generate fake data.
zMinEntry = 80.0*1E-06
zMaxEntry = 180.0*1E-06
zStepEntry = 0.2*1E-06
x = numpy.arange(zMinEntry,
zMaxEntry,
zStepEntry,
dtype = numpy.float64)
n = len(x)
meanY = zMinEntry + (zMaxEntry - zMinEntry)/2
sigm