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Formulation of Linear Fit for Cross Section Data---I
Minimize:
where
i
'th bin (i.e., range of
observed, which are centered at
) has
events.
Minimizing
with respect to unknown
gives
The superscript
denotes
or maximum likelihood estimate.
Geoffrey Fox
,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University,
gcf@npac.syr.edu
observed, which are centered
at 
) has 
events.
with respect to unknown 
gives
denotes 
or maximum likelihood estimate.