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95 Post author: PhilGoetz 29 March 2010 06:09PM

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Comment author: roundsquare 06 April 2010 09:00:07AM 5 points [-]

For anyone interested, here is a decent algorithm for getting the "correct" number of lines in your linear regression.

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/06dynamic-programming-2x2.pdf

Pages 5 and 6.

Comment author: Divide 28 October 2010 06:52:35PM 0 points [-]

Ouch. Comic Sans.

Good cookbook, though.