Task

Given a set of data vectors in the following format:

   
  
    
      
        y
        =
        {
        
          y
          
            1
          
        
        ,
        
          y
          
            2
          
        
        ,
        .
        .
        .
        ,
        
          y
          
            n
          
        
        }
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle y=\{y_{1},y_{2},...,y_{n}\}\,}
  


   
  
    
      
        
          X
          
            i
          
        
        =
        {
        
          x
          
            i
            1
          
        
        ,
        
          x
          
            i
            2
          
        
        ,
        .
        .
        .
        ,
        
          x
          
            i
            n
          
        
        }
        ,
        i
        ∈
        1..
        k
        
      
    
    {\displaystyle X_{i}=\{x_{i1},x_{i2},...,x_{in}\},i\in 1..k\,}
  


Compute the vector 



β
=
{

β

1


,

β

2


,
.
.
.
,

β

k


}


{\displaystyle \beta =\{\beta _{1},\beta _{2},...,\beta _{k}\}}

 using ordinary least squares regression using the following equation:

   
  
    
      
        
          y
          
            j
          
        
        =
        
          Σ
          
            i
          
        
        
          β
          
            i
          
        
        ⋅
        
          x
          
            i
            j
          
        
        ,
        j
        ∈
        1..
        n
      
    
    {\displaystyle y_{j}=\Sigma _{i}\beta _{i}\cdot x_{ij},j\in 1..n}
  


You can assume  y  is given to you as a vector (a one-dimensional array), and  X  is given to you as a two-dimensional array (i.e. matrix).




#include <stdio.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_matrix.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_math.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_multifit.h>
 
double w[] = {	52.21, 53.12, 54.48, 55.84, 57.20,
		58.57, 59.93, 61.29, 63.11, 64.47,
		66.28, 68.10, 69.92, 72.19, 74.46 };
double h[] = {	1.47, 1.50, 1.52, 1.55, 1.57,
		1.60, 1.63, 1.65, 1.68, 1.70,
		1.73, 1.75, 1.78, 1.80, 1.83	};
 
int main()
{
	int n = sizeof(h)/sizeof(double);
	gsl_matrix *X = gsl_matrix_calloc(n, 3);
	gsl_vector *Y = gsl_vector_alloc(n);
	gsl_vector *beta = gsl_vector_alloc(3);
 
	for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		gsl_vector_set(Y, i, w[i]);
 
		gsl_matrix_set(X, i, 0, 1);
		gsl_matrix_set(X, i, 1, h[i]);
		gsl_matrix_set(X, i, 2, h[i] * h[i]);
	}
 
	double chisq;
	gsl_matrix *cov = gsl_matrix_alloc(3, 3);
	gsl_multifit_linear_workspace * wspc = gsl_multifit_linear_alloc(n, 3);
	gsl_multifit_linear(X, Y, beta, cov, &chisq, wspc);
 
	printf("Beta:");
	for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
		printf("  %g", gsl_vector_get(beta, i));
	printf("\n");
 
	gsl_matrix_free(X);
	gsl_matrix_free(cov);
	gsl_vector_free(Y);
	gsl_vector_free(beta);
	gsl_multifit_linear_free(wspc);
 
}