Several things:
You must skip the first line (if it really is
x y
).You must use the correct function (the pdf and not the CDF, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibull_distribution, like you did in https://stackoverflow.com/q/20336051/2604213)
You must use an additional scaling parameter, because your data are not normalized
You must select adequate initial values for the fitting.
The following works fine:
f(x) = (x < 0 ? 0 : a*(x/lambda)**(n-1)*exp(-(x/lambda)**n))
n = 0.5
a = 100
lambda = 0.15
fit f(x) 'data.dat' every ::1 via lambda, n, a
set encoding utf8
plot f(x) title sprintf('λ = %.2f, n = %.2f', lambda, n), 'data.dat' every ::1
That gives (with 4.6.4):