It's easy to run a regression in Excel. The output contains a ton of information but you only need to understand a few key data points to make sense of your regression. You need the Analysis ...
the time it takes to run 1.5 miles, and the heart rate while running. Thus, in order to predict oxygen consumption, you estimate the parameters in the following multiple linear regression equation: ...
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