The purpose of this book is to reveal the foundations and major features of several basic methods for curve and surface fitting that are currently in use.
The purpose of this book is to reveal the foundations and major features of several basic methods for curve and surface fitting that are currently in use.
Least squares is probably the best known method for fitting linear models and by far the most widely used. Surprisingly, the discrete L 1 analogue, least absolute deviations (LAD) seems to have been considered first. Possibly the LAD criterion was forced into the background beca…
"Adjustment Computations provides a complete, up-to-date treatment of every aspect of least squares adjustment, the most rigorous procedure available for computing adjustments to measured data." "This comprehensive work starts with basic principles and proceeds to the developmen…
