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Comic #536

1 Spanners: Okay, I just need to do a least squares fit to these planetary data, calculate the correlation coefficient, ...
2 Spanners: ... estimate the linear parameters, and use them to plot the projected distances of the remaining orbits.
3 Spanners: Goo goo, ga ga...
4 Paris: What happened?!
4 Iki Piki: He's regressed to his childhood.

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Linear regression is a statistical method for estimating the value of a dependent variable at a given value of some other variable, using data collected at other values. It's usually applied to physical systems. And the odd pun.

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