VIDEO: It's easy to run a regression in Excel and you only need to understand a few data points to make sense of the results.

Multiple Linear Regression Analysis in Excel To perform the same linear regression but with multiple independent variables, select the entire range (multiple columns and rows) for the Input X Range.

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