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Also known as Numerical Analysis, Numerics aims to provide methods and algorithms for numerical computations.

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What algorithm is used in linear regression?

I usually hear about "ordinary least squares". Is that the most widely used algorithm used for linear regression? Are there reasons to use a different one?
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