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For one regressor x, simple linear regression is fine for fitting straight-line trends. But what about more general trends – quadratic trends, for example? (E.g. height against time for a body falling under gravity is quadratic.) Or cubic trends? (E.g.: the van der Waals equation of state in physical chemistry.) Or quartic? – etc.
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Bingham, N.H., Fry, J.M. (2010). Further Multilinear Regression. In: Regression. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-969-5_4
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