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Old 03-17-2007, 02:32 PM  
Rhesus
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To make things clearer: TREND and LINEST are functions that can be used to be used for least sq. linear regression, but in the classic way errors at all points in the x axis are given equal weight. (the sum of the squares all these errors is optimised (/minimised) to find the best coefficient)
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