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LEAST SQUARES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve
Synonyms:
least squares; method of least squares
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("least squares" is a kind of...):
statistical method; statistical procedure (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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