Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun least_squares

1 sense of least squares

Sense 1
least squares, method of least squares -- (a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve)
       => statistical method, statistical procedure -- (a method of analyzing or representing statistical data; a procedure for calculating a statistic)