不是数学简单。
你倒过来想也行,开始的时候这种方法简单,后来有人指出这种方法对应的误差分布是什么。
你看一下the errors have expectation zero and are uncorrelated and have equal variances, 是不是等价于高斯分布?
In a linear model in which the errors have expectation zero and are uncorrelated and have equal variances, a best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) of the coefficients is given by the least-squares estimator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Markov_theorem