The XML document available from this page is an exact translation of 27 'plain text' documents published by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) on that instution's website (http://www.nist.gov). The NIST documents are a part of the larger Statistical Reference Datasets proposed by NIST.

The NIST test suite available here represent 27 data sets for testing the performance of nonlinear least-squares regression packages. It was used at BioKin to finetune the performance of our nonlinear regression software.