And finally, to put to rest the notion that the number of residuals is in any way significant for the solution of the least squares problem I submit to you the function
f(x,y)=(x²+y²)² of 2 variables but only one residual f_1(x,y)=x²+y² which nonetheless has a unique minimum at the point (0,0). ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
