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title: "Least Squares Data Analysis with the ZX80/81"
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slug: "least-squares-data-analysis-with-the-zx80-81"
url: "http://localhost/article/least-squares-data-analysis-with-the-zx80-81/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/least-squares-data-analysis-with-the-zx80-81.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:18:52+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T01:04:49+00:00"
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  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "One of the most common tasks of a computer is to perform statistical analysis and data manipulative type computations. Many of the computations involved are very tedious to perform by hand since they sometimes require a large number of reiterative calculations. Statistical analysis problems that take hours for a human (equipped only with pencil and…"
category:
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  - name: "1982"
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  - name: "Type-in program"
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    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
  - name: "ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zx80/"
  - name: "ZX81"
    slug: "zx81"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zx81/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair ZX80"
    slug: "zx80"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zx80/"
  - name: "Sinclair ZX81"
    slug: "zx81"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zx81/"
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  - name: "Alger Salt"
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publication: "Sync"
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  id: 10243
  title: "SYNC"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/sync-magazine/"
authors: "Alger Salt"
volume: "2"
issue: "3"
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  - id: 26643
    title: "SYNC v2 n3"
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pages: "32-36"
pubdate: "May/June 1982"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v2n3"
---

One of the most common tasks of a computer is to perform statistical analysis and data manipulative type computations. Many of the computations involved are very tedious to perform by hand since they sometimes require a large number of reiterative calculations. Statistical analysis problems that take hours for a human (equipped only with pencil and paper) are solved in a matter of seconds with a computer. This article presents a program which computes some simple statistical quantities commonly used by engineers and scientists.