"Least-Squares Analysis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model.
| Descriptor ID |
D016018
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.740.750.400 N05.715.360.750.695.440 N06.850.520.830.750.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Least-Squares Analysis- Least-Squares Analysis
- Analyses, Least-Squares
- Least Squares Analysis
- Least-Squares Analyses
- Least Squares
- Analysis, Least-Squares
- Analysis, Least Squares
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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