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.
Contributors: Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880.
Publisher: Lippincott & co.; Trübner & co.
Published: 1896
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
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.