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Descriptor English: Least-Squares Analysis
Descriptor Spanish: Análisis de los Mínimos Cuadrados
Descriptor análisis de los mínimos cuadrados
Entry term(s) refinamiento de Rietveld
Scope note: Principio de estimación en que las estimaciones de un conjunto de parámetros en un modelo estadístico son los valores que reducen al mínimo la suma de las diferencias cuadráticas entre los valores observados de una variable dependiente y los valores pronosticados por el modelo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Análise dos Mínimos Quadrados
Descriptor French: Méthode des moindres carrés
Entry term(s): Analyses, Least-Squares
Analysis, Least Squares
Analysis, Least-Squares
Least Squares
Least Squares Analysis
Least-Squares Analyses
Refinement, Rietveld
Rietveld Refinement
Tree number(s): E05.318.740.750.400
N05.715.360.750.695.440
N06.850.520.830.750.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016018
Scope note: A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model.
Annotation: IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific disease or other concept (IM);
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Regression Analysis (1973-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under REGRESSION ANALYSIS 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under REGRESSION ANALYSIS 1990
Entry Version: LEAST SQUARES ANAL
DeCS ID: 24766
Unique ID: D016018
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2013/07/09
Least-Squares Analysis - Preferred
Concept UI M0024490
Scope note A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model.
Preferred term Least-Squares Analysis
Entry term(s) Analyses, Least-Squares
Analysis, Least Squares
Analysis, Least-Squares
Least Squares
Least Squares Analysis
Least-Squares Analyses
Rietveld Refinement - Narrower
Concept UI M0402364
Scope note A least squares analysis that minimizes the differences between the calculated and measured values by adjusting the parameters needed to describe the model. It is used for POWDER DIFFRACTION crystallography.
Preferred term Rietveld Refinement
Entry term(s) Refinement, Rietveld



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