Ordinary least squares

Ordinary least squares - method for estimating the unknown parameters in a linear regression model. Article “Ordinary least squares” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Ordinary least squares”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 217 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 66 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1229 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3537 in December 2016
• Global: #82338 in May 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6174 in May 2016
• Global: #24001 in April 2015

There are 11 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	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		70.0775
2	English (en) Ordinary least squares		66.144
3	Slovenian (sl) Navadni najmanjši kvadrati		20.7668
4	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		14.1756
5	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		12.3085
6	Chinese (zh) 普通最小二乘法		11.8701
7	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		10.328
8	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		9.8122
9	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		7.461
10	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		4.0997

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ordinary least squares" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ordinary least squares		6 892 838
2	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		421 177
3	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire		212 339
4	Chinese (zh) 普通最小二乘法		60 990
5	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		33 734
6	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		18 179
7	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		17 165
8	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		13 422
9	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		780
10	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		450

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ordinary least squares" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ordinary least squares		14 095
2	Chinese (zh) 普通最小二乘法		673
3	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire		643
4	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		546
5	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		456
6	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		162
7	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		69
8	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		50
9	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		32
10	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		20

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

Language versions of the article "Ordinary least squares" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ordinary least squares		166
2	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire		12
3	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		9
4	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		8
5	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		6
6	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		4
7	Chinese (zh) 普通最小二乘法		4
8	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		3
9	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		2
10	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		2

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

Language versions of the article "Ordinary least squares" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ordinary least squares		2
2	Slovenian (sl) Navadni najmanjši kvadrati		1
3	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		0
4	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		0
5	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		0
6	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		0
7	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		0
8	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire		0
9	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		0
10	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		0

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

Language versions of the article "Ordinary least squares" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ordinary least squares		648
2	Chinese (zh) 普通最小二乘法		166
3	Arabic (ar) مربعات صغرى عادية		98
4	Persian (fa) کمترین مربعات معمولی		86
5	Korean (ko) 정규방정식		78
6	Simple English (simple) Ordinary least squares		66
7	Spanish (es) Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios		35
8	Greek (el) Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων		25
9	French (fr) Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire		17
10	Catalan (ca) Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris		9

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مربعات صغرى عادية
ca	Catalan Mètode dels mínims quadrats ordinaris
el	Greek Μέθοδος ελαχίστων τετραγώνων
en	English Ordinary least squares
es	Spanish Mínimos cuadrados ordinarios
fa	Persian کمترین مربعات معمولی
fr	French Méthode des moindres carrés ordinaire
ko	Korean 정규방정식
simple	Simple English Ordinary least squares
sl	Slovenian Navadni najmanjši kvadrati
zh	Chinese 普通最小二乘法

Best Rank

Simple English: #6174 05.2016

Global: #24001 04.2015

Best Rank

Simple English: #3537 12.2016

Global: #82338 05.2013

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