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3.3 Applying the Least-squares Criterion Fitting a Straight Line Suppose a model of the form y = Ax + B is expected and it has been decided to use the m data points (xi, yi), i = 1, 2,…, m, to estimate A and B. Denote the lease-squares estimate of y = Ax + B by y = ax + b. Applying the least-squares criterion to this situation requires the minimization of A necessary condition for optimality yields the equations These equations can be rewritten to give Fitting a Power Curve Now lets use the least-squares criterion to fit a curve of the form y = Axn, where n is fixed, to a given collect