Fitting a line to three or four points on a plane

SIAM Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 616-628

  Ellis, Steven P ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear regression; Principal components; Singularity; Stability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GEOMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SET THEORY;

LEAST ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; LINE FITTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PLANE FITTING; SINGULARITIES;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 0036959330     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144500376777     Document Type: Article

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