Least Squares Fitting
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A mathematical procedure for finding the best-fitting curve to a given set of points by minimizing the sum of the curve's squared offsets from the data.
Least squares fitting is a college-level concept that would be first encountered in a probability and statistics course. It is an Advanced Placement Statistics topic.
Prerequisites
| Standard Deviation: | The standard deviation is a statistic defined as the square root of the variance that measures how spread out a set of data is. |