5Linear model and multilinear model
This chapter covers the following items:
–Algorithm for linear modeling
–Algorithm for multilinear modeling
–Examples and applications
Sir Francis Galton (1822–1911), an English scientist and also one of the cousins of Charles Darwin, contributed significantly to the fields of not only genetics but also psychology. He came up with the concept of regression [1, 2]. He is also regarded as a pioneer in applying statistics to biology. One of the datasets he handled included the heights of fathers and their first sons. Galton focused on the prediction of heights of sons being reliant on the heights of fathers. Having analyzed the scatter-plots regarding these heights, Galton discovered that the trend was linear ...
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