Minimize squared relative error
The Endeavour 2025-06-21
Summary:
Suppose you have a list of positive data points y1, y2, …, yn and you wanted to find a value α that minimizes the squared distances to each of the y‘s. Then the solution is to take α to be the mean of the y‘s: This result is well known [1]. The following variation is […]
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