Visualizing simple regressions with fitted line plots

The fitted line plot is a simple regression tool in Minitab that produces a scatterplot with a least square regression line fitted to the data. It provides additional output to the regression fits that are provided under scatterplot tools, such as the analysis of variance and R-squared statistics.

This will only use a single predictor; multiple predictors are best used with Regression… or General Regression….

We will use the data from the Oxford weather station to investigate the relationship between the mean maximum temperature and hours of sunlight per month.

Getting ready

We will use the data from the Oxford weather station in this example. This data is from the Met Office website and is found ...

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