
This is now linear in the variables Ln(y) and Ln(x). Similarly, the equation y = ax c can be linearized to Ln(y) = Ln(a) + cLn(x). You can solve for Ln(c) and Ln(a) by using the formulas for straight line regression, just replace the y data with Ln(y). This is now linear in the variables Ln(y) and x. Doing this yields Ln(y) = Ln(a) + Ln(c)x. For example, the equation y = ac x can be linearized by taking the natural logarithm of both sides. You can obtain the equations for exponential, power, and logarithmic regression curves by linearizing the functions. When the coefficient is close to zero, data does not exhibit a linear relation. The correlation coefficient ranges from -1 to 1, with -1 meaning perfect negative correlation (negative slope) and 1 meaning perfect positive correlation.

You can compute the correlation coefficient which indicates how closely the line fits. Once you calculate m, the formula for b is The slope of the regression line, m, is given by the formula To find the regression line y = mx + b, you must compute the following quantities from the paired x and y data: You can adapt the method of linear least squares regression to find an exponential regression curve y = ac x, power regression curve y = ax c, or logarithmic regression curve y = a + cLn(x). In linear regression, the "best fit" line y = mx + b satisfies the condition that the sum of the squared vertical distances between the points and the line is minimized, hence the name least squares.

The method of least squares regression allows you to fit an equation through set of data points.

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How to Fit Lines and Curves to Data: Least Squares Regression
