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Simple Linear Regression in R: lm()

In R, lm() is a function that can take many parameters. Common parameters include formula, which describes a model, and data, which contains a dataset.

In simple linear regression in R, a formula parameter is written YVAR~XVAR, where XVAR is the predictor variable and YVAR is the response variable.

A simple linear regression equation with data and formula parameters may look like:

lm(formula = YVAR~XVAR, data = datavar)

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Updated 2020-04-04

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