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Definition of Method of least squares

1. Noun. A method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve.

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Literary usage of Method of least squares

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"method of least squares.* 1. A NUMBER of observations being taken for the ... The method of least squares may be defined to be that method of treating this ..."

2. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"The method of least squares, established independently by two great mathematicians, Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833) of Paris and Carl Friedrich Gauss ..."

3. Empirical Formulas by Theodore Rudolph Running (1917)
"CHAPTER VI EMPIRICAL FORMULAS DEDUCED BY THE method of least squares In the preceding chapters we computed approximately the values of constants in ..."

4. The Mathematical theory of probabilities and its application to frequency by Arne Fisher (1922)
"The Principle of Method of Least Squares.—The following paragraph purports to give a brief exposition of the determination of the coefficients in the Gram ..."

5. Practical Least Squares by Ora Miner Leland (1921)
"Method of Least Squares. The most probable value of the observed quantity obtainable from a given set of observations will be the one corresponding to the ..."

6. The Elements of Practical Astronomy by William Wallace Campbell (1899)
"REDUCTION BY THE method of least squares 104. In case the chronometer correction is required with all possible accuracy, the series of transit observations ..."

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