from pylab import * from scipy import * from scipy.optimize import leastsq def err_func(p,y,x): A,k,theta = p return y - A*sin(2*pi*k*x+theta) def evaluate(x,p): return p[0] * sin(2*pi*p[1]*x+p[2]) ax = arange(0, 0.2, 0.001) A,k,theta = 5, 50.0, pi/3 y_true = A*sin(2*pi*k*ax+theta) y_meas = y_true + 0.2*randn(len(ax)) p0 = [6, 50.0, pi/3] plsq = leastsq(err_func,p0,args=(y_meas,ax)) print plsq plot(ax,y_true) plot(ax,y_meas,'o') plot(ax,evaluate(ax,plsq[0])) show()