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I like google docs because it is in a webpage. However, it does lack one thing that both Open Office and Excel have - the 'trendline'. Trendline is a dumb word for linear regression fit. What is a ...

Learn the difference between linear regression and multiple regression and how investors can use these types of statistical analysis.

The residual sum of squares (RSS) is a statistical technique used to measure the variance in a data set that is not explained by the regression model.

Assigning shares of "relative importance" to each of a set of regressors is one of the key goals of researchers applying linear regression, particularly in sciences that work with observational data.

Based on a statistic proposed by Cook (1977) for the detection of influential observations, we propose a measure for the influence of variables in linear-regression models, and we introduce the ...