Hello everyone!

I have a question that I can't seem to find a straight answer to. I need to fit a circle to a collection of points that a circular in nature. I was trying to use the following elliptical least squares fit, but I can't determine what I should be minimizing.

Here's the page:

http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=1395&view=html

For an ellipse, I used the general conic:

F:=a*x^2+b*x*y+c*y^2+d*x+e*y+f

I minimize using:

V:=Minimize(E,{4*a*c-b^2=1});

What would I use for a circle? Or is there a better way for a circle?

Hello everyone!

I used Maple 17 to fit an ellipse to a set of points using the following guide:

http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=1395&view=html

My rotated ellipse was calculated to be:

SOL;

0.3939708949 x^2 - 0.005975799853 + 0.6345432059 y^2

But everytime I try to graph it in Maple 17, it only shows the axes and nothing else. Any help would be extremely appreciated.