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Just a note - the user fit is not really for fitting, rather for editing and adjusting the line in the plot more then anything.
There is not a best fit because the trig/logarithm ones can go so awry and take way too long. I suppose it could be limited to the well behaved fits or something...
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In my years of teaching, I have always thought that the best fit selection on previous HP calculators was not the best way to fit data .
It is sometimes misleading to students to use this selection when fitting data. Sometimes it is possible to get a higher regression coefficient or a smaller RMSE using the best fit of data to a linear function when the student is supposed to know(Since they have already been told this by their instructor or it is in the lab handouts,[which most of them do not read] that the phenomena should behave as a natural exponential function.
This the same kind of idea that Tim talked about as regards the CAS not being a Black Box,
I have students every semester that do not know that a numerical result is incorrect,even when they are told up front the possible range of values they should expect to get beforehand.
Charles Dickens had a quote about Medical Students,but I think it applies to students in general.