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IV.—On Least Squares and Linear Combination of Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. C. Aitken
A. C. Aitken
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Mathematical Institute, University of Edinburgh
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In a series of papers W. F. Sheppard (1912, 1914) has considered the approximate representation of equidistant, equally weighted, and uncorrelated observations under the following assumptions:–

(i) The data being u1, u2, …, un, the representation is to be given by linear combinations

(ii) The linear combinations are to be such as would reproduce any set of values that were already values of a polynomial of degree not higher than the kth.

(iii) The sum of squared coefficients which measures the mean square error of yi, is to be a minimum for each value of i.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 55 , 1936 , pp. 42 - 48
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1936

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