Mechanical laboratory methods; the testing of instruments and machines in the mechanical engineering laboratory and in practice (1922)
Smallwood, Julian Chase · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 22
ponone result, which, though perhaps not the true one, is in bestaccord with the data. It is possible to locate a different line witheach pair of observations, x-t-y locating one, xi-z-yi, another,and so on. One might conclude that the average value of x-v-ywould be best, but it can be shown by the… … 6 PRINCIPLES OF MEASUREMENTS is therefore indirect. The best result (referred to generally as most probable ) is a line so located that the sum of thesquares of the distances from it of the points a, 6, c, and d shallbe a minimum. Such a line can be determined mathematically,but it is generally…
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