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<p> (differences between actual and predicted values of the dependent variable y), each of which is given by, for any candidate parameter values  and ,</p>

<p>In other words,  and  solve the following <a href="page.php?w=minimization_problem">minimization problem</a>:</p>

<p>where the <a href="page.php?w=objective_function">objective function</a>  is:</p>

<p>By expanding to get a quadratic expression in  and  we can derive minimizing values of the function arguments, denoted  and :</p>

<p>Here we have introduced</p>

<p><big> Expanded formulas </big></p>
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