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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint : Springer,
1999.
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| Series: | Springer series in statistics. Perspectives in statistics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: List of Tables: List of Figures: Introduction
- The Methods Of Boscovich And Mayer
- Laplace's Work On The Methods Of Boscovich And Mayer
- Laplace's Minimax Procedure
- The Method of Least Squares
- Statistical Foundations of The Method of Least Squares
- Adrain's Work On The Normal Law
- Gauss's Most Probable Values
- Laplace's Most Advantageous Method
- Gauss's Most Plausible Values
- Gauss's Method of Adjustment By Correlates
- Mechanical Analogies For The Method of least Squares.-Orthogonalisation Procedures
- Thiele's Derivation of The Method of Least Squares
- Later Work On The Method of Situation
- Nonlinear Curve Fitting Procedures
- Later Work On The Method of Averages.