It only makes sense. I did linear regression in google docs and I did it for python. But what if you neither of those? Can you do it by hand? Why yes. Suppose I take the same data from the pylab ...

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The standard linear regression model does not apply when the effect of one explanatory variable on the dependent variable depends on the value of another explanatory variable. In this case, the ...

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