friendtogeoff

"""
compute an exponential decay fit to two vectors of x and y data
result is in form y = a + b * exp(c*x).
ref. https://gist.github.com/johanvdw/443a820a7f4ffa7e9f8997481d7ca8b3
"""
def exp_est(x,y):
    n = np.size(x)
    # sort the data into ascending x order
    y = y[np.argsort(x)]
    x = x[np.argsort(x)]