Gauss and the invention of least squares

DOI10.1214/aos/1176345451zbMath0477.62001WikidataQ55933361 ScholiaQ55933361MaRDI QIDQ1161001

Stephen M. Stigler

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345451

zbMATH Keywords

geodesy; nonlinear least squares; Legendre; metric system; priority disputes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-03: History of statistics

86A30: Geodesy, mapping problems

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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