Derivation of the linear least squares

Saturday, November 15th, 2014

I’ve been looking for a good derivation of linear least squares. Linear Least Squares attempts to fit a straight line to data by minimising the error between the data and the fitted line.

The fitted line is usually described in the following format:

y=mx+c

Here’s a good derivation

 

 

 

 

 


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