To bring them into agreement, the small inconsistencies ( usually only a few cm ) are adjusted using the method of least squares that is, eliminated in a statistically plausible manner.
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These equations are solved by the method of least squares which minimizes the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed and calculated arrival times, and a new estimated hypocenter is computed.
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Important papers of his include " On series expansions determined by the methods of least squares ", and " Investigations of the number of primes less than a given number ".
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When the name is used, the " Gaussian distribution " was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who introduced the distribution in 1809 as a way of rationalizing the method of least squares as outlined above.
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In 1810, after reading Gauss's work, Laplace, after proving the central limit theorem, used it to give a large sample justification for the method of least square and the normal distribution.
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The method of least squares leads to a consideration of problems in an inner product space, involving projection onto subspaces, and thus the problem of minimizing the squared errors can be reduced to a problem in numerical linear algebra.
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The minor planet was named in memory of Finnish scientist Henrik Johan Walbeck ( 1793 1822 ), astronomer and geodesist at the old Academia Aboensis who used the method of least squares to derive a good value for the Earth's flattening.
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When the method of least squares is used to estimate " ? " 0 and ? 1, then the residuals \ scriptstyle \ widehat \ varepsilon, unlike the errors \ scriptstyle \ varepsilon, cannot be independent since they satisfy the two constraints
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Adrain, Gauss, and Legendre all motivated the method of least squares by the problem of reconciling disparate physical measurements; in the case of Gauss and Legendre, the measurements in question were astronomical, and in Adrain's case they were survey measurements.
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:Assuming that the application of physics is correct ( I don't understand the " experimental " set-up ), and that the measurements are subject to about the same ( normal ) error distribution with ? = 0, the method of least squares is applicable and appropriate.
