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Fitting a line

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Fitting a line

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- [Instructor] When we covered linear regression, I didn't mention two important equations, now it's time to explore them. The linear regression model is an equation that describes a linear relationship. The equation that describes the straight line is y equals mx plus b, and similar to that, our equation which describes the linear equation model is y hat equals beta zero, plus beta one x one. Where beta zero is y-intercept, or value where the line intersects the y-axis, meaning x is equal to zero. And beta one is the slope or the size of the relationship. The beta one shows us the positive or negative relationship between the independent and dependent variables. x represents the value for the independent variable. So to get the predicted value for the dependent variable, y hat, we have to plug the value x in our model. And now when we look at the graph, the point P on the graph shows us the predicted value of y hat at x.…

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