Given a set of x/y positions, this function attempts to find the best fitting ellipse that goes through these points.

optimEllipse(x, y)

Arguments

x, y

Vectors of x and x positions.

Value

A vector with 5 elements: the x and y coordinated of the center of the ellipse, the width and height of the ellipse, and the angle of the ellipse relative to the y axis.

Author

Simon Garnier, garnier@njit.edu

Examples

optimEllipse(rnorm(100), rnorm(100))
#> [1]  2.800471  2.465847  8.185009  6.435999 49.854168