Fitting Linear Relationships : A History of the Calculus of Observations 1750-1900 (Springer Series in Statistics) (1999. 290 p. 24,5 cm)

This book is intended for students of mathematical statistics who are interested in the early history of their subject. It gives detailed algebraic descriptions of the fitting of linear relationships by the method of least squares (L ) and the related least absolute 2 deviations (L ) and minimax absolute deviations (Loo) procedures.