Okay doky Thanks Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Roper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] OT - Finding slope of a line, with lots of points
> I think you're referring to linear regression -- try doing a Google > search on that and you should find lots of algorithms and > implementations. > > > Matt > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:52:35PM -0600, 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 > > -- > > ************************************************* > * Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * > * http://www.mattrope.com * > * PGP Key: http://www.mattrope.com/mattrope.asc * > ************************************************* > _______________________________________________ > 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
