The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...

We consider the question of estimating the linear, least-squares predictor of the future values of a real-valued, discrete, purely nondeterministic, stationary time series from its known past. A ...

A statistical technique for fitting a curve to a set of data points. One of the variables is transformed by taking its logarithm, and then a straight line is fitted to the transformed set of data ...

The usual approach to handling missing data in a regression is to assume that the points are missing at random (MAR) and use either a fill-in method to replace the missing points or a method using ...

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