Generalized Gauss–Newton method

Generalized Gauss–Newton method

The generalized Gauss–Newton method is a generalization of the least-squares method originally described by Carl Friedrich Gauss and of Newton's method due to Isaac Newton to the case of constrained nonlinear least-squares problems.


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