A treatise on the method of least squares; or, The application of the theory of probabilities in the combination of observations
By: By William Chauvenet ... Being the appendix to the author's Manual of spherical and practical astronomy
Publisher: Lippincott & Co.; [etc., etc.
Published: 1879
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
Subjects: Least squares
Notes: "The tables are numbered IX., IX. A., X. and X. A., as they stand in the original work."--Note.

"Criterion for the rejection of doubtful observations," by Benjamin Peirce (Gould's Astron. jour., v. 2, p. 161-163) "nearly in the words of its author, and with only some slight changes of notation": p. 558-566 and tables X, XA.