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Polynomial Regression

Polynomial regression is a form of regression analysis that models the relationship between an independent variable x and dependent variable y as a polynomial equation of degree n in x. It fits a nonlinear relationship between x and the expected value of y, even though the regression function is linear in the parameters being estimated from the data, making it a special case of multiple linear regression. The explanatory variables resulting from expanding the baseline variables into higher-degree terms are used to model nonlinear relationships between variables.

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Polynomial Regression

Polynomial regression is a form of regression analysis that models the relationship between an independent variable x and dependent variable y as a polynomial equation of degree n in x. It fits a nonlinear relationship between x and the expected value of y, even though the regression function is linear in the parameters being estimated from the data, making it a special case of multiple linear regression. The explanatory variables resulting from expanding the baseline variables into higher-degree terms are used to model nonlinear relationships between variables.

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In statistics, polynomial regression is a form of regression analysis in which the


relationship between the independent variable x and the dependent variable y is
modelled as an nth degree polynomial in x. Polynomial regression fits a nonlinear
relationship between the value of x and the corresponding conditional mean of y,
denoted E(y |x). Although polynomial regression fits a nonlinear model to the data, as
a statistical estimation problem it is linear, in the sense that the regression function
E(y | x) is linear in the unknown parameters that are estimated from the data. For this
reason, polynomial regression is considered to be a special case of multiple linear
regression.
The explanatory (independent) variables resulting from the polynomial expansion of the
"baseline" variables are known as higher-degree terms. Such variables are also used
in classification settings.[1]

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