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At 4:12 PM -0500 3/10/04, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
For a summary of the LSF method and the rationale for using squares vs
absolute values, go to:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeastSquaresFitting.html
Interesting comments from Wolfram here.
They say that squares of the 'offsets' works better than absolute
values because the squared function is differentiable.