International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume B
Reciprocal space
Edited by U. Shmueli

© International Union of Crystallography 2006
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. B. ch. 3.2, pp. 353-359   | 1 | 2 |
https://doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000560

Chapter 3.2. The least-squares plane

R. E. Marsha* and V. Schomakerb‡

aThe Beckman Institute–139–74, California Institute of Technology, 1201 East California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125, USA, and  bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  rem@xray.caltech.edu

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