Description
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1931, this book is the second edition of a 1917 original. The text provides an account of the method of least squares, aiming to obtain the best interpretation of the results of experiment without consideration of the way in which these results are obtained.
Table of Contents1. Errors of observation; 2. The law of error; 3. The case of one unknown; 4. Observations of a different weight; 5. The general problem of the adjustment of indirect observations involving several unknown quantities; 6. Evaluation of the most probable values of the unknowns, their weights and probable errors; 7. The adjustment of conditioned observations; 8. The rejection of observations; 9. Alternatives to the normal law of errors; 10. Correlation; 11. Harmonic analysis; 12. The periodogram; Appendices; Index.
