The victory of least squares and orthogonality in statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 315-321

  DeLaubenfels, Ralph ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; History of statistics; Inner product; Least squares; Sufficiency; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750912780     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313006X151109     Document Type: Review

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