The use of electronic computing techniques in the calculation of stability constants

An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters

Donald W. Marquardt · Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · 1963 · 30.1K citations

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A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for Minimization

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Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Programming, Several Variables +14

`` Direct Search'' Solution of Numerical and Statistical Problems

Robert Hooke, T. A. Jeeves · Journal of the ACM · 1961 · 4.2K citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Programming, Engineering +17

Least squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors

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Numerical Analysis, Geometric Modeling, Geometric Interpolation +13