Numerical Methods for Least Squares Problems

Bjõrck, Ake

ISBN 10: 0898713609 / ISBN 13: 9780898713602

Published by SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Numerical Methods for Least Squares Problems
• Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898713609
• ISBN 13: 9780898713602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 2.54W x 17.78H x 26.04D centimeters 2.54 centimeters width by 17.78 centimeters height by 26.04 centimeters depth
• Weight: 748 grams

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Synopsis

The method of least squares was discovered by Gauss in 1795 and has since become the principal tool for reducing the influence of errors when fitting models to given observations. Today, applications of least squares arise in a great number of scientific areas, such as statistics, geodetics, signal processing, and control. In the last 20 years there has been a great increase in the capacity for automatic data capturing and computing and tremendous progress has been made in numerical methods for least squares problems. Until now there has not been a monograph that covers the full spectrum of relevant problems and methods in least squares. This volume gives an in-depth treatment of topics such as methods for sparse least squares problems, iterative methods, modified least squares, weighted problems, and constrained and regularized problems. The more than 800 references provide a comprehensive survey of the available literature on the subject.

About the Author

Ake Bjorck is Professor of Mathematics at Linkoping University in Sweden. He has coauthored the wellknown textbook Numerical Methods with Germund Dahlquist and has published more than 50 technical papers. He is the managing editor of BIT and has served on the editorial boards of many other prominent international journals. He has been a member of SIAM since 1969.