InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- Point Fitting Problems in One- and Two-dimensions.- The Hyperplane Fitting Problem in Two or More Dimensions.- Linear Programming Computations.- Statistical Theory.- The Least Median of Squared Residuals Procedure.- Mechanical Representations.- References.- Index of Names.  

Dr. Richard William Farebrother was a member of the teaching staff of the Victoria University of Manchester 1970-1993 and an Honorary Reader in Econometrics 1993-2001. He has published three books: Linear Least Squares Computations (1988), Fitting Linear Relationships (1999), and Visualizing Statistical Models and Concepts (2002). He has also published more than 150 research papers.