
Contents
Preface xiii
1 Least Squares Approximation 1
1.1 A Curve Fitting Example . . ..................... 2
1.2 LinearBatchEstimation ....................... 7
1.2.1 LinearLeastSquares..................... 9
1.2.2 WeightedLeastSquares ................... 14
1.2.3 ConstrainedLeastSquares.................. 16
1.3 LinearSequentialEstimation..................... 19
1.4 NonlinearLeastSquaresEstimation ................. 25
1.5 BasisFunctions............................ 35
1.6 AdvancedTopics ........................... 40
1.6.1 MatrixDecompositionsinLeastSquares .......... 40
1.6.2 KroneckerFactorizationandLeastSquares ......... 43
1.6.3 Levenberg-MarquardtM