gnuplot> f(x) = m*x +n gnuplot> fit f(x) "toreview.dat" u 2:3 via m,n iter chisq delta/lim lambda m n 0 3.6936711672e+01 0.00e+00 1.41e+00 1.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 1 3.6992605848e-01 -9.88e+06 1.41e-01 6.105751e-01 4.583953e-01 2 7.9414981509e-02 -3.66e+05 1.41e-02 8.423745e-01 2.635659e-02 3 7.9329087727e-02 -1.08e+02 1.41e-03 8.467400e-01 1.870027e-02 4 7.9329087724e-02 -3.50e-06 1.41e-04 8.467408e-01 1.869890e-02 iter chisq delta/lim lambda m n After 4 iterations the fit converged. final sum of squares of residuals : 0.0793291 rel. change during last iteration : -3.5012e-11 degrees of freedom (FIT_NDF) : 22 rms of residuals (FIT_STDFIT) = sqrt(WSSR/ndf) : 0.0600489 variance of residuals (reduced chisquare) = WSSR/ndf : 0.00360587 Final set of parameters Asymptotic Standard Error ======================= ========================== m = 0.846741 +/- 0.02881 (3.403%) n = 0.0186989 +/- 0.0497 (265.8%) correlation matrix of the fit parameters: m n m 1.000 n -0.969 1.000