The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...

THE method of least squares has an extensive literature of its own. Our author, in a sketch appended to his work, gives the titles of forty-seven of the most important memoirs and books which treat of ...

The method of least squares is used to construct approximate solutions to the boundary value problem $\tau f = g_0, B_i(f) = 0$ for $i = 1,\ldots, k$, on the interval ...

A statistical technique for fitting a curve to a set of data points. One of the variables is transformed by taking its logarithm, and then a straight line is fitted to the transformed set of data ...