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In previous topics you studied scatterplots as visual displays of the relationship between two variables and the correlation coefficient as a numerical measure of the linear association between them. With this topic you will begin to investigate least squares regression as a formal mathematical model often used to describe the relationship between variables.
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Rossman, A.J., Chance, B.L. (1998). Least Squares Regression I. In: Workshop Statistics. The Workshop Mathematics Project. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2926-9_9
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