Skip to main content
An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Full

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. statistical analysis
  3. analysis of variance
  4. multivariate analysis
  5. regression analysis
  6. least squares
  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. statistical analysis
  3. analysis of variance
  4. multivariate analysis
  5. regression analysis
  6. least squares
  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. statistical analysis
  3. analysis of variance
  4. multivariate analysis
  5. regression analysis
  6. least squares

Preferred term

least squares

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A statistical method for finding a line or curve (i.e., the 'best fit') that represents a relationship between two measured quantities (e.g., height and age of a stand of trees). The measurements are plotted as points on a graph. If they fall near the same line, the least squares method is used to find the minimum of the sum of the squares of the vertical distances of each data point from the proposed line.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • least squares analysis
  • least squares method
  • least squares regression analysis

In other languages

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/49452

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/19/06, last modified 1/29/20