"Least-Squares Analysis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				A principle of estimation in which the estimates of a set of parameters in a statistical model are those quantities minimizing the sum of squared differences between the observed values of a dependent variable and the values predicted by the model.
    
			
			
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D016018 | 
					
						| MeSH Number(s) | E05.318.740.750.400 N05.715.360.750.695.440 N06.850.520.830.750.400 | 
					
						| Concept/Terms | Least-Squares AnalysisLeast-Squares AnalysisAnalyses, Least-SquaresLeast Squares AnalysisLeast-Squares AnalysesAnalysis, Least-SquaresAnalysis, Least SquaresLeast Squares
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| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 
| 2010 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "Least-Squares Analysis" by people in Profiles.
						
					
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								Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations of Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Inflammatory and Endothelial Function Markers in Women. Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Dec 15; 82(12):875-884. 
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								Standardized comparison of the relative impacts of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) mutations on nucleoside RT inhibitor susceptibility. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 May; 56(5):2305-13. 
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								Correlates of depression among people with diabetes: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Prim Care Diabetes. 2010 Dec; 4(4):215-22. 
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								HIV-1 protease mutations and protease inhibitor cross-resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Oct; 54(10):4253-61. 
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								Hospitalizations for Kawasaki syndrome among children in the United States, 1997-2007. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2010 Jun; 29(6):483-8. 
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								Improving participant selection in disease management programmes: insights gained from propensity score stratification. J Eval Clin Pract. 2008 Oct; 14(5):914-8. 
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								Healthcare cost differences with participation in a community-based group physical activity benefit for medicare managed care health plan members. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Aug; 56(8):1459-65. 
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								Hospital charges attributable to a primary diagnosis of infectious diseases in older adults in the United States, 1998 to 2004. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Jun; 56(6):969-75. 
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								Protective association between nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use and measures of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Oct 15; 164(8):760-8. 
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								Predictors of children's healthcare use: the value of child versus parental perspectives on healthcare needs. Med Care. 2004 Mar; 42(3):232-8.