%0 Conference Article %T PROBABILISTIC JUSTIFICATION OF THE LEAST SQUARES METHOD THROUGH THE PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD %A Spesivtsev, G.A. %K linear regression, least squares method, maximum likelihood estimation, normal distribution, parameter estimation %J MODELING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES – 2026 %D 2026 %P 9 %I FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov