curve-fit

Both signals have been tested with a Gaussian curve-fit to rule out terrestrial interference.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Is it snowing where you are, Mr. Thiessen? | Station151 2009

To Loehle: A curve-fit is not a model, and the existing carbon-cycle models are not curve fits.

A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010

He said right there that it was simply a curve-fit to the model.

Jesting with Adjusters « Climate Audit 2007

All Newton achieved in Book 2 with resistance forces was merely a curve-fit.

Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007

These idealizations are especially well suited for this purpose precisely because, according to the theory, they would hold exactly were no other forces at work, and hence every deviation from them should be physically telling, and not just, for example, an accidental feature of a curve-fit.

Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007

And while I’m sure you’d never curve-fit on purpose, assumptions about reality that we carry with us make it difficult not to make decisions as to procedure that have unrealized consequences.

Some Principal Components Illustrations « Climate Audit 2006