How do I get certain plots to be an equation?
---Points are:
(1,2)
(2, 4.6)
(3, 5.7)
(4, 8)
(5, 9.4)
(6, 12.6)
(7, 13.7)
(8, 16)
These points are a scatter plot, and I need to know a close an aprox. eqaution for these point.
Here's how to do a least-squares best-fit (many calculators and computer software will do this automatically for you):
Thanks, Alan, for that excellent answer......I believe I also remember something from Linear Algebra about finding the "least-squares" [line-of-best- fit] vector, but I could be mistaken......!!!!!
