Intepretation of multipeak gaussian fitting

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Mon, 03/21/2011 - 01:28 pm

Hi everyone,

I am confused about the interpretation of my peak parameters output from the gaussian fitting of a multipeak data set.

From the ' peak parameters' which are attained from the Igor software, how is the 'peak' value determined for the individual peaks.

Is this the median value from the data set, or the average, or the mode of the gaussian distribution?

any help would be greatly appreciated :)

thanks!!
You don't say what peak shape you're fitting; I will assume Gaussian.

The Height parameter is just the height of the peak above the base at the maximum Y value.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

March 22, 2011 at 09:38 am - Permalink