2012/4/25 Gilles Sadowski <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org>: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:46:58PM +0200, Sébastien Brisard wrote: >> Hi Gillles, >> > >> > Can we then agree that the current naming is not really clear? >> > Since we are not allowed to readily remove this method, the best solution >> > would be to update the Javadoc to make it clear what is done there, i.e. >> > cite the full definition of ASE (together with a reference). >> > >> this would be the best solution in my view. I just need to find a good >> reference where ASE is properly defined. > > The ones you found are good enough, I guess; just to let people know that > they might not want to use that method. ;-) > Oh no, they do want to use this method. From what I gathered, it's actually the standard way of estimating the error on the parameters. I found two nice references 1. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/ (NIST is your friend -- will implement some unit tests based on these reference cases!) 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares see paragraph "In a least squares calculation with unit weights, or in linear regression, the variance on the jth parameter"
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