Carl Friedrich Gauss's work, "Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies," is a foundational text in statistics and celestial mechanics. This treatise introduced the method of least squares, which remains a cornerstone of statistical analysis and scientific modeling.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss — Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies (Theoria Motus) in Statistics
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