By contrast, nonlinear regression analysis or nonlinear least-squares fitting (NLSF) refers to equations that are nonlinear in their parameters.

Following the comments by Moore and Zeigler on the analogy between the analysis of quantal responses and non-linear regression, the analogy between the former and linear weighted regression is ...

R. J. Carroll, David Ruppert, A Comparison Between Maximum Likelihood and Generalized Least Squares in a Heteroscedastic Linear Model, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 77, No. 380 ...