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Regression Equation . ... the "b" is the slope of the regression line, ... But multiple linear regressions are more complicated and have several issues that would need another article to discuss.

10.3.1 Scatterplot matrix. Recall that we use SAS’s scatterplot matrix feature to quickly scan for pairs of explanatory variables that might be colinear. To do this in R we must first make sure we ...