TY CONF TI PROBABILISTIC JUSTIFICATION OF THE LEAST SQUARES METHOD THROUGH THE PRINCIPLE OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD KW linear regression KW least squares method KW maximum likelihood estimation KW normal distribution KW parameter estimation JO MODELING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES – 2026 AU Spesivtsev, G.A. PY 2026 PB FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov