Gracias, >From the brief reading, seems like just the ticket
Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Roark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] OT - Finding slope of a line, with lots of points "least squares". -- Rod On Friday 21 March 2003 01:52 pm, Jay Strauss wrote: > Sorry, I already googled, but can't find what I'm looking for. > > I remember back in science class (must have been Chem), we'd do experiments > and plot a bunch of points on graph paper. Then we'd fudge a line that > went thru the points (trying to get equal numbers of points on one side of > the line as the other), and that was our "expected" slope. > > Is there some formula or algorithm for doing this with a computer? (I'll do > it in Perl) Or where, under what topic would I go a googling? > > Thank > Jay _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
