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MPFIT uses the Levenberg-Marquardt technique to solve the
least-squares problem. In its typical use, MPFIT will be used to fit
a user-supplied function (the "model") to user-supplied data points
(the "data") by adjusting a set of parameters. MPFIT is based upon
MINPACK-1 (LMDIF.F) by More' and collaborators.