The interpretation of observational errors in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
In 1809 Gauss published a probabilistic analysis of the method of least squares, a method which he claimed to have been using as a simple algorithm for a decade or more. Laplace, in part as a result of dissatisfaction with Gauss's approach, and in part because of his own long-standing interest...
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Imperial College London
1973
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