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. 1964 Nov-Dec;68A(6):567–578. doi: 10.6028/jres.068A.054

Figure 8.— Simple example of the least squares fit of a straight line to the three observed points shown as dots.

Figure 8.—

The dashed line is the usual least squares solution of Y=a+bX which minimizes Σ(Y0Yc)2. The solid line is the solution assuming both X and Y are subject to equal absolute errors.