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The Method of Least Squares

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Elements of Scientific Computing

Part of the book series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering ((TCSE,volume 7))

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Suppose you have a set of discrete data. (ti,yi), i D 1,...,n.

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Tveito, A., Langtangen, H.P., Nielsen, B.F., Cai, X. (2010). The Method of Least Squares. In: Elements of Scientific Computing. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11299-7_5

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