April 1957 | Technical Report NBS Report 5068
Fitting an Arbitrary Functional Relationship by Least Squares with all of the Variables Subject to Error
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Kenneth A. Norton, “Fitting an Arbitrary Functional Relationship by Least Squares with all of the Variables Subject to Error,” Technical Report NBS Report 5068, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, April 1957.
Kenneth A. Norton
Abstract: A solution is presented in this paper, with all of the variable subject to error, for the general leased squares porblem of determining consistent estimates of the parameters of a functional relationship which is expected to fit exactly the average of an infinite number of observations.A general method for weighting the data is presented, and examples are given to illustrate the effects of varying the statistical characteristics of the observed data.
Keywords: least-squares fitting
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