Fitting Linear Relationships : a History of the Calculus of Observations 1750-1900 /

This book describes the development of what we would now regard as a class of statistical fitting procedures between 1750 and 1900. The book contains detailed algebraic descriptions of the fitting of linear relationships by the method of least squares and the closely related least absolute deviation...

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Main Author:	Farebrother, Richard William
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1999.
Series:	Springer series in statistics. Perspectives in statistics.
Subjects:	Mathematical statistics > History. Mathematical statistics. Electronic books. History.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book