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    LEAST SQUARES

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curveplay

    Synonyms:

    least squares; method of least squares

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("least squares" is a kind of...):

    statistical method; statistical procedure (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)

    Domain category:

    statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

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