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For questions related to the theory or application of linear regression.

Linear regression is an approach for finding an optimal set of parameter values $P$ to tune a parametric model $\mathbb{M}_P$ given a data set containing associated scalar dependent values $y$ and scalar independent values $x$ or independent vector values $\vec{x}$.

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Linear regression: why is distance *squared* used as an error metric?

Usually when performing linear regression predictions and gradient descent, the measure of the level of error for a particular line will be measured by the sum of the squared-distance values. Why distance squared? In most of the explanations I…
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Can multiple linear regression using the least squares(OLS) method, also be used to solve simple linear regression problems? Would both be equivalent?

Simple Linear Regression reference: https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat462/node/93/ Multiple Linear Regression reference: https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat462/node/131/ I see that the way to calculate the coefficients of simple linear regression is…
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Can Adaline do multiple linear regression being equivalent to the least squares method?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADALINE Can Adaline(Adaptive Linear Neuron) be used to do a multiple linear regression being equivalent to the least squares method?
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