On 6/8/2010 7:26 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Hi there. Does anybody here happen to know how to perform linear
> regression?
>
> As in, I've got a list of data points that ought to lie in a nearly
> perfect straight line, and I want to discover what the slope and
> intercept of that line is. (But each individual point might contain a
> certain amount of measurement error.)

It's easy enough to get a line in Point-slope form, given 2 points. 
Could you not integrate the deviation of the points between the 
endpoints and subsequently adjust the location of the line so it falls 
in the middle?

>
> I've had a look on Wikipedia, but it starts talking about chi-squared
> and Student t-distributions and covariance and basically I have no clue
> what the hell any of it means. :-/


-- 
~Mike

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