Love this blog post: "
Brent and Levenberg-Marquardt: the bread and butter algorithms for postgrads" which uses data I collected as an example for modelling trends.
I collected these data to include in an article I was invited to write for Astronomy&Geophysics on "
Women of the future in the RAS". In that article I conclude: "Fitting a straight line to this 60-year trend and dangerously
extrapolating the poor linear fit into the future, we find that we can't
expect gender equality in physics A-level until 2163."
The data is not cheerful, and a linear increase model does not fit it well. In fact according
Val Aslanyan's best fit model, recent years show a decline in the fraction of A-level physicsists who are women.
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| Credit to Val Aslanyan (http://improbablematter.blogspot.com/2016/12/brent-and-levenberg-marquardt-bread-and.html) for this version of this plot. |
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