Fitting Linear Relationships - A History of the Calculus of Observations 1750-1900 - Hardback - 1998

A description of the development of a class of statistical fitting procedures between 1750 and 1900. It contains detailed algebraic descriptions of the fitting of linear relationships by the method of least squares and the least absolute deviations and minimax absolute deviations procedures.
Year of publication: 1998
Pagination: 271 pages, biography
Format: Hardback
Serie: Springer Series in Statistics