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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop toos your

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brought to you by least squares which is a really

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depressing outcome If you're playing a fellow a least squares

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regression line is one that fits the data so that

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what And here the pendulum Already So we've basically got

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another definition video on our hands here least squares regression

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What is it Why do we need it And well

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who really cares Well some of us do believe anyway

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this question just wants to know if we understand the

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point of the least squares regression well we always want

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the sum of the squares of the deviations to be

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a small as possible so that the line describing that

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data representatives is close to perfect as we can get

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it least squares regression line is intended to do just

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that to minimize the sum of the square deviations and

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by doing so provide a best pit summary of the

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relationship between our two variables It's something like a tailor

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in that respect except it doesn't have to go around

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measuring the deviations in scenes or so yeah this is

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kind of one of those either you know or you

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don't problems And in this case if you know it

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you'll pick and through deep This is one of the

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few times we fully endorsed regressing long as it's here 00:01:18.972 --> [endTime] and not in the playground

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