2701: "Change in Slope"

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2701: "Change in Slope"

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Title text: Squinting at a graph is fine for getting a rough idea of the answer, but if you want to pretend to know it exactly, you need statistics.

Back when I studied maths, statistics was one of my least favourite parts. Now I know there was an easier way!
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Re: 2701: "Change in Slope"

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The most common methods used by engineering students to fit a line on some data:
- least squares
- eyeballing
i am doing a computers on the inters webses
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