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<h3 class="section">36.6 References and Further Reading</h3>
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<p>A summary of formulas and techniques for least squares fitting can be
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found in the “Statistics” chapter of the Annual Review of Particle
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Physics prepared by the Particle Data Group,
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<li><cite>Review of Particle Properties</cite>,
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R.M. Barnett et al., Physical Review D54, 1 (1996)
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<a href="http://pdg.lbl.gov/">http://pdg.lbl.gov/</a>
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<p class="noindent">The Review of Particle Physics is available online at the website given
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<p><a name="index-NIST-Statistical-Reference-Datasets-2281"></a><a name="index-Statistical-Reference-Datasets-_0028StRD_0029-2282"></a>The tests used to prepare these routines are based on the NIST
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Statistical Reference Datasets. The datasets and their documentation are
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available from NIST at the following website,
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