Two points suffice for drawing a straight line. However we may be presented with a set of data points (more than two?) presumably forming a straight line. How can one use the available set of data points to draw a straight line?
A probable approach is to draw a straight line which hopefully minimizes the error between the observed data points and estimated straight line.
where
is the observed data points and
is the points from estimated straight line.
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