statistics
linear regression
Fitting a line minimizing squared deviations.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (23)
161 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 23 sources
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Ciccione et al., Can Non-Human Primates Extract the Linear Trend from a Noisy Scatterplot?, iScience, 2025↗
- Ciccione et al., Trend Judgment as a Perceptual Building Block of Graphicacy and Mathematics, Scientific Reports, 2023↗
- Ciccione, Dehaene & Dehaene, Outlier Detection and Rejection in Scatterplots, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, 2023↗
- Ciccione, Sablé-Meyer & Dehaene, Analyzing the Misperception of Exponential Growth in Graphs, Cognition, 2022↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- dataphys.org
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. linear regression. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/linear-regression.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-linear-regression,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {linear regression},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/linear-regression.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-06. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.