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Regression Analysis

What is Regression Analysis?

Regression analysis estimates the dependence of one variable $\{y_i\}$ on other variables $\{x_{ij}\}$.

For a linear regression with one independent variable: $$y_i=\alpha + \beta * x_i + \epsilon_i$$
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A graph demonstrating regression analysis.