Introduction to regression.

This week we’ll be doing a quick overview of regression. I talked the idea of a statistical relationship between variables, by expressing the mean of a response variable as a mathematical function of the value of an explanatory variable. Linear regression uses a line as this function. We started talking about how to estimate the parameters of the regression line using the data and the concept of least squares.

 

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