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The fitting of straight lines, ranking among the most basic procedures of data analysis, is guided via restrictive preconditions.

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    If, in contrast to our premise, the systematic errors vary along the sequence of measured ordinates, or should the empirical data not fulfill the linear model (13.2), the estimator (13.19) will, of course, break down.

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  1. M. Grabe, Generalized Gaussian Error Calculus (Springer, Berlin, 2010), 301 p. 100 illus., ISBN 978-3-642-03304-9, e-ISBN 978-3-642-03305-6

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Grabe, M. (2014). Straight Lines. In: Measurement Uncertainties in Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04888-8_13

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