1. Compute the linear least squares polynomial for the data of Example 2 (repeated below). Yi 2 1 0.00 1.0000 2 0.25 1.2840 3 0.50 1.6487 4 0.75 2.1170 5 1.00 2.7183

From Numerical Analysis 8th edition by Richard Burden. This is #1 from Section 8.1

Extracted text: 1. Compute the linear least squares polynomial for the data of Example 2 (repeated below). Yi 2 1 0.00 1.0000 2 0.25 1.2840 3 0.50 1.6487 4 0.75 2.1170 5 1.00 2.7183