Nonlinear regression - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_regressionThe assumption underlying this procedure is that the model can be approximated by a linear function, namely a first-order Taylor series: where . It follows from this that the least squares estimators are given by The nonlinear regression statistics are computed and used as in linear regression statistics, but using J in place of X in the formulas. The linear approximation introduces biasinto the statistics. …