"least squares". -- Rod
On Friday 21 March 2003 01:52 pm, Jay Strauss wrote: > Sorry, I already googled, but can't find what I'm looking for. > > I remember back in science class (must have been Chem), we'd do experiments > and plot a bunch of points on graph paper. Then we'd fudge a line that > went thru the points (trying to get equal numbers of points on one side of > the line as the other), and that was our "expected" slope. > > Is there some formula or algorithm for doing this with a computer? (I'll do > it in Perl) Or where, under what topic would I go a googling? > > Thank > Jay _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
