Single Outlier At End Point



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Outliers are often caused by manual
errors in recording experimental data.


Single Outlier At Mid Point



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Outliers are often caused by manual
errors in recording experimental data.


Fitting Parallel Data



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This is often caused by environmental
changes during data collection, such as
temperature changes on different days
when making multiple data collection runs.


Data With A Large Step



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This is often caused by environmental
changes during data collection such as a
temperature change during a lunch break.


Data With A Poorly Defined Region



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This can be mitigated by taking additional
data in the region that is poorly defined.


Equation Missing An Offset



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This illustrates the effect of fitting data with
an offset to an equation that does not have one.

This can be caused by experimental equipment
introducing bias (such as a DC offset) during
data acquisition. Fitting the data to an
equation with an offset will reveal the bias.


Data Scatter Over Entire Range



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The effect of data scatter can be reduced
by increasing the total number of data points.


Fitting Random Data



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This illustrates the effect of fitting completely
random data that has no relationship of any kind.