the opening paragraph of the article Mindless Statistics by Gerd Gigerenzer

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The blog of John D. Cook

Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

Here’s how to plot x or y errorbars (or both) and how to customize the resulting plot.

Introduction The least square method---a very popular technique---is used to compute estimations of parameters and to fit data. It is one of the oldest techniques of modern statistics as it was first published in 1805 by the French mathematician Legendre in a now classic memoir. But this method is even older because it turned out that, after the publication of Legendre's memoir, Gauss, the famous German mathematician, published another memoir (in 1809) in which he mentioned that he had previously discovered this method and used it as early as 1795.

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