@SqueakyBeaver@piefed.blahaj.zone
Post #1512620
2026-02-09 23:29 UTC
r-squared is the measure of how well a set of data can be represented by a linear trend line. The values range from 0 to 1, and the closer to 1, the more likely that the data is linear. It's not perfect, and often there's more to look at to decide on linearity, but it's a pretty cool metric.
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@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-10 01:29
wow, thanks for that explanation! Just for you, I recreated the spreadsheet and added the r^2^, which turns out to be 0.896: 