Method of Averages and Its Comparison with the Method of Least Squares
- 1 October 1954
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 25 (10) , 1260-1263
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1721540
Abstract
It is shown, under fairly general conditions, that the standard deviation of the residuals of the straight line fitting a set of points with uniformly spaced abscissas by the method of averages is at most 2/3 times as great as the standard deviation of the least-squares line. Theorems of significance in the practical use of the method of averages are proven in the course of the analysis.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: