Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

xkcd #2048 is exceptionally relevant to this. Doing linear regression well with a big dataset is difficult! I do this all the time at work and honestly I often show a scatter plot without any ...

Below is the formula for a simple linear regression. The "y" is the value we are trying to forecast, the "b" is the slope of the regression line, the "x" is the value of our independent value ...