Excerpt from The Theory of Errors and Method of Least Squares Then introducing the notion of a law of facility Of error give precise meaning to the phrase most probable value, cannot do better than to adopt that law Of facility in accord ance with which the arithmetical mean is the most probable value. After deriving this law and showing that it leads to the principle of least squares, he says This principle, which in all applications of mathematics to natural philosophy ad mits of very frequent use, ought everywhere to ...
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Excerpt from The Theory of Errors and Method of Least Squares Then introducing the notion of a law of facility Of error give precise meaning to the phrase most probable value, cannot do better than to adopt that law Of facility in accord ance with which the arithmetical mean is the most probable value. After deriving this law and showing that it leads to the principle of least squares, he says This principle, which in all applications of mathematics to natural philosophy ad mits of very frequent use, ought everywhere to hold good as an axiom by the same right as that by which the arithmetical mean between several Observed values Of the same quantity is adopted as the most probable value. (art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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