Fitting Linear Relationships
Subtitle: A History of the Calculus of Observations 1750-1900 (Springer Series in Statistics)
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 14, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780387985985
First sentence: A fundamental problem in the theory of errors which seems first to have attracted the attention of leading practical scientists in the middle of the eighteenth century, when expressed in the terminology of modern mathematical statistics, was that of estimating the unknown slope parameters of the standard linear statistical model.