A MATLAB™ code to perform weighted linear regression with (correlated or uncorrelated) errors in bivariate data

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 377-380

  Thirumalai, Kaustubh ^a   Singh, Arvind ^b   Ramesh, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Bivariate regression; Correlated errors; Force fit; Trend line; Weighted linear regression

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960075598     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: 09746889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12594-011-0044-1     Document Type: Article

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