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An important objective in scientific research and in more mundane data analysis tasks concerns the possibility of predicting the value of a dependent random variable based on the values of other independent variables, establishing a functional relation of a statistical nature. The study of such functional relations, known for historical reasons as regressions, goes back to pioneering works in Statistics.

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Marques de Sá, J.P. (2003). Data Regression. In: Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA and MATLAB. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05804-6_7

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