Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...

Our teacher already knows there is a positive relationship between how much time was spent on an essay and the grade the essay gets, but we’re going to need some data to demonstrate this properly.

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For the model x and y are considered variables. But in the process of fitting the experimental points x i and y i are fixed whereas a and b are varied until the best match between the experimental ...