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Definition 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.

Medical Definition of Least squares

1. A principle of estimation invented by Gauss in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are the quantities that minimise the sum of squared differences between the observed values of the dependent variable and the values predicted by the model. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Least squares

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If several observations of the element itself arc made, it is obvious that the method of least squares gives the arithmetical mean of the observations as ..."

2. Smithsonian Physical Tables by Thomas Gray, Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"least squares. Value» ol 0.8453 ^r=. nV><—1 TABLE 52. This table gives the average error of the arithmetic mean when the probable error is one. ..."

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. 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 ..."

5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1878)
"THE following list contains the titles of 408 papers, books and parts of books, relating to the Method of least squares and the Theory of accidental Errors ..."

6. The Theory of Measurements by Lucius Tuttle (1916)
"The mathematical principle of least squares is that when measurements are ... least squares for Conditioned Measurements.— If we are dealing with two ..."

7. The Theory of Measurements by Lucius Tuttle (1916)
"The mathematical principle of least squares is that when measurements are ... least squares for Conditioned Measurements.— If we are dealing with two ..."

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