Timeline for Why square the difference instead of taking the absolute value in standard deviation?
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| Jul 4, 2014 at 11:13 | comment | added | probabilityislogic | the "unique solution" argument is quite weak, it really means there is more than one value well supported by the data. Additionally, penalisation of the coefficients, such as L2, will resolve the uniqueness problem, and the stability problem to a degree as well. | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 | history | answered | onestop | CC BY-SA 2.5 |