We have created a set of data values that sample a function y(x). The sample points are stored in two arrays: xVals and yVals. These represent measurements of a physical process that is subject to noise so that if a is the i'th entry of xVals (i.e. a = xVals[i]) then yVals[i] is an approximation of y(a).

Write a procedure called findOrder that finds the lowest order polynomial model that fits the data to an accuracy of 1.0e-1, as measured by the residual error. findOrder should return the array of coefficients provided by pylab.polyfit. Recall that pylab.polyfit takes as arguments an array of x values, an array of y values, a degree of polynomial fit, and an optional argument full, which, if True, will cause pylab.polyfit to return:

an array of coefficients
the residual of the fit
Three additional parameters that should not concern you.

You may assume that the modules pylab and numpy are already imported into the environment. You may use anything you wish from the numpy module, but only pylab.polyfit and pylab.array are available from the pylab module.


def findOrder(xVals, yVals, accuracy = 1.0e-1):
# Your Code Here

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To find the lowest order polynomial model that fits the data, we can start with a very low degree polynomial and incrementally increase the degree until the residual error is below the desired accuracy threshold.

Here's the code implementation of the `findOrder()` function:

```python
import numpy as np
import pylab

def findOrder(xVals, yVals, accuracy=1.0e-1):
degree = 0 # initialize the degree of the polynomial

while True:
# Fit the polynomial of current degree to the data
coefficients, res, _, _, _ = pylab.polyfit(xVals, yVals, degree, full=True)

# Check if the residual error is below the accuracy threshold
if res < accuracy:
return coefficients

# Increment the degree
degree += 1
```

Here's how the code works:

1. We start with degree 0 and enter a while loop that keeps increasing the degree until the residual error is below the desired accuracy threshold.

2. In each iteration, we use `pylab.polyfit()` to fit a polynomial of the current degree to the data. The `full=True` parameter ensures that `pylab.polyfit()` returns the coefficients, the residual error, and other optional parameters.

3. We check if the residual error is below the accuracy threshold. If it is, we return the coefficients as the lowest order polynomial that fits the data.

4. If the residual error is not below the accuracy threshold, we increment the degree and repeat the process with the higher degree polynomial.

Note: `pylab.polyfit()` returns the coefficients in descending order of powers. For example, the coefficient at index 0 corresponds to the highest degree term, the coefficient at index 1 corresponds to the second-highest degree term, and so on.