Methode der kleinsten Quadrate

Quality:

Least squares method - approximation method in statistics. Article “Methode der kleinsten Quadrate” in German Wikipedia has 63.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 23 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 8829^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9084^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2025 the article “Methode der kleinsten Quadrate” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Methode der kleinsten Quadrate”, its content was written by 238 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1562 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 253 times in German Wikipedia and cited 3062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #280 in April 2006
• Global: #5373 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #3505 in February 2015
• Global: #2630 in March 2015

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Least squares		65.0664
2	German (de) Methode der kleinsten Quadrate		63.7489
3	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats		50.7574
4	Chinese (zh) 最小二乘法		44.3265
5	Swedish (sv) Minstakvadratmetoden		38.0294
6	Portuguese (pt) Método dos mínimos quadrados		34.2405
7	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-малките квадрати		32.3021
8	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات		31.8141
9	Slovenian (sl) Najmanjši kvadrati		29.9436
10	Czech (cs) Metoda nejmenších čtverců		29.642

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Least squares		10 038 818
2	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados		2 778 564
3	Japanese (ja) 最小二乗法		2 644 945
4	German (de) Methode der kleinsten Quadrate		2 392 250
5	Russian (ru) Метод наименьших квадратов		2 353 677
6	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés		1 926 406
7	Chinese (zh) 最小二乘法		1 733 109
8	Portuguese (pt) Método dos mínimos quadrados		960 332
9	Polish (pl) Metoda najmniejszych kwadratów		935 299
10	Italian (it) Metodo dei minimi quadrati		894 402

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Least squares		19 988
2	Russian (ru) Метод наименьших квадратов		5 484
3	Japanese (ja) 最小二乗法		4 623
4	Chinese (zh) 最小二乘法		4 109
5	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés		3 597
6	German (de) Methode der kleinsten Quadrate		3 595
7	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados		2 429
8	Italian (it) Metodo dei minimi quadrati		2 147
9	Portuguese (pt) Método dos mínimos quadrados		1 637
10	Polish (pl) Metoda najmniejszych kwadratów		1 435

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Least squares		304
2	German (de) Methode der kleinsten Quadrate		238
3	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés		130
4	Russian (ru) Метод наименьших квадратов		84
5	Italian (it) Metodo dei minimi quadrati		76
6	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados		73
7	Chinese (zh) 最小二乘法		62
8	Portuguese (pt) Método dos mínimos quadrados		52
9	Dutch (nl) Kleinste-kwadratenmethode		51
10	Japanese (ja) 最小二乗法		48

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Least squares		4
2	Romanian (ro) Metoda celor mai mici pătrate		2
3	German (de) Methode der kleinsten Quadrate		1
4	Italian (it) Metodo dei minimi quadrati		1
5	Arabic (ar) مربعات دنيا		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Ən kiçik kvadratlar üsulu		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-малките квадрати		0
8	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats		0
9	Czech (cs) Metoda nejmenších čtverců		0
10	Danish (da) Mindste kvadraters metode		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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