Open AccessTHE THEORY AND APPLICATION OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND THE LEAST-SQAURES PRINCIPLE
Author(s) -
P. De Viliers
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/7-3-838
Subject(s) - regression analysis , regression , mathematics , regression diagnostic , statistical theory , statistics , econometrics , partial least squares regression , calculus (dental) , computer science , polynomial regression , medicine , dentistry
The theory and practice of regression analysis, and the principle of least-squares on which it is based, is frequently encountered in Mathematics and particularly Statistical Mathematics, but less well known are some very useful applications in a military environment. It is therefore the aim of this article to firstly give a general description of the theory of regression analyses, and secondly to highlight some military applications of the theory