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	Nonlinear Weighted Least Squares (NWLS)	การวิเคราะห์กำลังสองน้อยที่สุดแบบถ่วงน้ำหนัก (WLS)
สาขาวิชา	เศรษฐมิติ	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Regression model	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1960s–1980s (formalized in applied econometrics)	1935
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Extension of Gauss-Newton nonlinear least squares with Aitken-type weighting	Alexander Craig Aitken
ประเภท	Nonlinear regression estimator	Weighted linear estimator
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Greene, W. H. (2018). Econometric Analysis (8th ed.). Pearson Education. ISBN: 978-0134461366	Aitken, A. C. (1935). IV.—On least squares and linear combination of observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 55, 42–48.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	NWLS, nonlinear weighted least squares, weighted nonlinear regression, heteroscedasticity-corrected nonlinear regression	WLS, weighted regression, heteroscedasticity-corrected OLS, variance-weighted least squares
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Nonlinear Weighted Least Squares combines the flexibility of nonlinear regression with the variance-stabilizing power of observation-level weights. It minimises a weighted sum of squared residuals around a user-specified nonlinear mean function, making it the method of choice when the relationship is inherently nonlinear and error variance differs across observations.	Weighted Least Squares is a generalization of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression that assigns each observation a weight inversely proportional to its error variance, thereby down-weighting high-variance data points and up-weighting precise ones. Introduced in its general matrix form by Alexander Craig Aitken in 1935, WLS is the canonical remedy when heteroscedasticity is present and the error variance structure is known or can be reliably estimated.