It’s the sort of easy maths problem that you can work out in a few minutes using pencil and paper, but physicists in China, Canada and Singapore have now solved pairs of linear equations like this one ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 23, No. 108 (Oct., 1969), pp. 787-812 (26 pages) The mathematical and numerical least squares solution of a general linear system of equations is discussed.

Various statistical tools are available for modeling the relationship between response and covariate if the data are fully observable. In the situation of censored data, however, those tools are no ...