Alexander Aitken

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Alexander Craig Aitken (1 April 1895–3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model.

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