Bücher von R.W. Farebrother

In this book, the author finds that many of the important concepts of mathematical statistics can be associated with physical models; and that the optimality criteria of statistical estimation procedures can often be interpreted in terms of the concept of potential energy.

Detailed descriptions of the fitting of linear relationships by the method of least squares and the closely related least absolute deviations and minimax absolute deviations procedures are presented, along with some of the important work by Laplace, Gauss, and Adrain.

Presenting numerous algorithms in a simple algebraic form so that the reader can easilytranslate them into any computer language, this volume gives details of several methodsfor obtaining accurate least squares estimates