Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using JavaScript. Linear regression is the simplest machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value, ...

Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...

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The purpose of this tutorial is to continue our exploration of regression by constructing linear models with two or more explanatory variables. This is an extension of Lesson 9. I will start with a ...

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This article develops a method of calculating iterative estimates of the coefficients of a set of linear regression equations. There are p equations such that the explanatory variables are ...