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The slope of the least-squares trend line for this 127-year re cord is 0.5 ºC per century.
Archive 2009-10-01 EliRabett 2009
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The slope of the least-squares trend line for this 127-year re cord is 0.5 ºC per century.
Critical Review of Robinson, Robinson, and Soon’s “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” EliRabett 2009
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Results of ordinary least-squares regression demonstrate that access to saloons and the percentage of immigrant and ritualistic church members in a county are the variables that most influence the results of Prohibition referenda.
Lewis on Prohibition Referenda, 1907-1919 Dan Ernst 2008
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Results of ordinary least-squares regression demonstrate that access to saloons and the percentage of immigrant and ritualistic church members in a county are the variables that most influence the results of Prohibition referenda.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Trends do not always combine in a simple linear manner when combining samples, because of nonlinearity in the least-squares process.
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Trends do not always combine in a simple linear manner when combining samples, because of nonlinearity in the least-squares process.
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This looks like a curve that was drawn by hand, rather than fit by least-squares, but there is obviously a correlation: as a country gets wealthier, it gets less religious.
American Exceptionalism Sean 2007
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Also, trends do not always combine in a simple linear manner when combining samples, because of nonlinearity in the least-squares process.
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Eq. 4, for example, applies to cross validity, Rc, for model estimates based on least-squares.
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To this, apparently YOU added least-squares regression lines in red.
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