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Determinacy in the Linear Model: Gauss to Bose and Koopmans
Author(s) -
Aldrich John
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international statistical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.051
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1751-5823
pISSN - 0306-7734
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1999.tb00427.x
Subject(s) - determinacy , gauss , mathematics , econometrics , mathematical analysis , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary Gauss showed that least squares fails to produce a unique solution only when the problem is indeterminate. This note considers his argument and the notion of indeterminacy underlying it. It also relates the argument to twentieth‐century discussions of estimability and identifiability.