Linear Regression and Free Will
Do we have free will? That’s a question that’s haunted many philosophers, scientists, and people contemplating their existence late at night. We might find some answers in linear regression, of all the places. Background Linear regression can be simplified to drawing a line of best fit. Given any scattered set of data points, we want to create a line that best represents the shape of the data. A simple, 2D linear regression model is given by a general form ...