How to apply piecewise linear fit in Python?

You can use numpy.piecewise() to create the piecewise function and then use curve_fit(), Here is the code

from scipy import optimize
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
%matplotlib inline

x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ,11, 12, 13, 14, 15], dtype=float)
y = np.array([5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 28.92, 42.81, 56.7, 70.59, 84.47, 98.36, 112.25, 126.14, 140.03])

def piecewise_linear(x, x0, y0, k1, k2):
    return np.piecewise(x, [x < x0], [lambda x:k1*x + y0-k1*x0, lambda x:k2*x + y0-k2*x0])

p , e = optimize.curve_fit(piecewise_linear, x, y)
xd = np.linspace(0, 15, 100)
plt.plot(x, y, "o")
plt.plot(xd, piecewise_linear(xd, *p))

the output:

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For an N parts fitting, please reference segments_fit.ipynb

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