Simple linear regression is commonly used in forecasting and financial analysis—for a company to tell how a change in the GDP could affect sales, for example. Microsoft Excel and other software ...

In simple regression, there is one independent variable, X, and one dependent variable, Y. For a given value of X, we can estimate the average value of Y and write this as a conditional ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 285-300 (16 pages) The authors consider the problem of simple linear regression when the ...