Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate ...

It only makes sense. I did linear regression in google docs and I did it for python. But what if you neither of those? Can you do it by hand? Why yes. Suppose I take the same data from the pylab ...

Emily Norris is the managing editor of Traders Reserve; she has 10+ years of experience in financial publishing and editing and is an expert on business, personal finance, and trading. Thomas J ...

Implementing LRR from scratch is harder than using a library like scikit-learn, but it helps you customize your code, makes it easier to integrate with other systems, and gives you a complete ...

Linear regression (also called simple regression) is one of the most common techniques of regression analysis. Multiple regression is a broader class of regression analysis, which encompasses both ...

Regression is a statistical tool used to understand and quantify the relation between two or more variables. Regressions range from simple models to highly complex equations. The two primary uses for ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...

Linear regression is a powerful and long-established statistical tool that is commonly used across applied sciences, economics and many other fields. Linear regression considers the relationship ...