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Gauss’s paper on the “Theory of the Combination of Observations Leading to Minimum Errors” was published in three parts, the first two in 1823 and a supplement in 1828.
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(2007). Gauss’s Theory of Linear Minimum Variance Estimation. In: A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713–1935. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46409-1_13
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