PT Journal AU Maca, J Leitner, B TI Nonlinear least squares method SO Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina PY 1999 BP 52 EP 58 VL 1 IS 2 DI 10.26552/com.C.1999.2.52-58 WP https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-199902-0007.php DE no keywords SN 13354205 AB The paper deals with a comparison of linear and nonlinear least squares approximation. Its aim is to show that the well known transformations of nonlinear dependencies on linear dependencies do not always give exact results. Therefore, the only right possibility of approximation of nonlinear functions is to use one of nonlinear least squares procedures. The Levenberg - Marquardt compromise seems to be by far the best one. ER