This web site was prepared by Dr Bruce Harvey and is provided for people who have purchased either 2006 or 2009 version of  the book: 

Harvey, B.R. Practical Least Squares and Statistics for Surveyors, Monograph 13, Third Edition, School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, UNSW. 332 + x pp.  

ISBN 0-7334-2339-6

The third edition (2006) sold out. It has been reprinted (2009) with minor changes and a spiral binding for easier use.

Click on a link below to download or open files. The files are copyright to the author and should not be distributed to anyone who has not purchased the book. Downloading Advice - Read Me

Book Order Form etc   Independent Book Reviews of Monograph 13 

Chapter 1: Colour figures   Animation  Ch1 xls Excel File  The Excel (xls) files can be opened by other spreadsheet software eg OpenOffice.  I have, but don't upload,  xlsx files.

The Least Squares Treasure Hunt, Educational Game: exe file about 1.9Mb 

Chapter 2: Colour figures   Ch2 xls Excel File

Chapter 3: Colour figures   Morpeth Traverse input data  Question data

Chapter 4: Colour figures   Ch4 xls Excel File   EDM Calibration xls

Chapter 5: Colour figures   Chifley Dam input data   Gosford input data   Q8 Oatley 2D Clean input data   Q9 Oatley 1D input data   Q10 Pillars T3000 input data   Q11 Wellington input data

Chapter 6: Colour figures   Q10 input data

Chapter 7: Colour figures   Q9 traverse input data

Chapter 8: Colour figures   Ch8 xls Excel File with a new 3D transformation problem and solution

Chapter 9: Colour figures   Q7 input data

Chapter 10: Colour figures   Q3 input data    Q8 input data    Q9 input data  

I have added a file that can be used by Google Earth to view the survey networks in the textbook:   Notes on kml files    Harvey_Monograph13_networks.kml

Some additional notes for students on least squares:
Condition_method_examples    Catenary and parabola best fit curves    SCG combined LS circle or ellipse examples   Small VF esp in GPS   Datums and Freenets

Some of my other notes for students - not specific to least squares:

Survey Computations Textbook  Calculation of shortest join between 2 lines in 3D

Some of my papers referred to by Monograph 13:

Harvey (2004)   ... Transformation of ... Laser Scanning
Harvey etal.(1998) Calculation of 3D Control Surveys 
Harvey (1997)        Least Squares Treasure Hunt - an Educational Game
Harvey and Coleman (1993)  Surveying the Deflection of an Arch Bridge to sub-millimetre Precision.  
Harvey (1993)       Survey network adjustments by the L1 method
Harvey (1992)       Theodolite Observations and LS
Harvey (1991)       Telescope Axes Surveys and associated Least Squares Calculations
Harvey (1987)       Bayesian Least Squares and the effects of input weighting of parameters on the variance factor etc.
Harvey(1986)        Transformation of 3D coordinates

One day I will load some more of my papers that might be hard to find for international readers. Here are two recent papers of mine:

Harvey (2010)       Surveying Puzzles
Harvey (2009)       Constraint Equations in Cadastral Modelling.

Updates (residuals, corrections):  Embarrassing but true; some students have found some typos in the 2006 printing. These have all been rectified in the 2009 spiral bound reprint. The corrections to the 2006 version are in this file: Corrections_2006