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Least-Squares' Fitting of Data by Means of Polynomials

Raymond T. Birge and J. W. Weinberg^*

Raymond T. Birge

University of California, Berkeley, California

J. W. Weinberg^*

University of California, Berkeley, California

^*Now at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rev. Mod. Phys. 19, 298 – Published 1 October, 1947

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.19.298

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