Ming-Yen Cheng, Hau-Tieng Wu, Local Linear Regression on Manifolds and Its Geometric Interpretation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 108, No. 504 (December 2013), pp. 1421-1434 ...

In regression problems alternative criteria of "best fit" to least squares are least absolute deviations and least maximum deviations. In this paper it is noted that linear programming techniques may ...