“The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results ...

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This paper reviews three basic methods of non-linear least squares estimation and the best known modifications to the popular Gauss-Newton procedure. With regard to the Gauss-Newton procedure the ...

Linear regression is a powerful and long-established statistical tool that is commonly used across applied sciences, economics and many other fields. Linear regression considers the relationship ...