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Hi all I have a set of data whose scatter plot shows a very nice power relationship. My problem is when I fit a Power Trend Line in an Excel spreadsheet, I get the model y= 44.23x^2.06 with an R square value of 0.72. Now, if I input the same data into R and use model< -nls(y~ a*x^b , trace=TRUE, data= my_data, start = c(a=40, b=2)) I get a solution with a = 246.29 and b = 1.51. I have tried