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Home Courses Observation Theory: Estimating the Unknown Course materials Readings Pre 3.1 Introduction

Pre 3.1 Introduction

Course subject(s) Pre-knowledge Mathematics

This section gives a review of the  basic elements of multivariate calculus, required for the EdX course “Observation Theory: Estimating the unknown”.

In the following units, you will find information about three main topics, which you should be familiar with before the start of Module 3 on Least Squares estimation:

  1. Multivariate functions and partial derivatives
  2. Gradient
  3. Jacobian matrix
  4. Taylor approximation (only needed for the optional part on non-linear least squares in module 4)
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