LEAST SQUARES


Meaning of LEAST SQUARES in English

Statistics.

a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.

Also called least-squares method, method of least squares .

[ 1860-65 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .