[issue44151] Improve parameter names and return value ordering for linear_regression

[Miki Tebeka]

Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm +1 on the changes proposed by Raymond.

In my teaching experience most developers who will use the built-in statistics package will have highschool level math experience.

On the other hand, they'll probably to Wikipedia and the entry there uses dependent variable and regressor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression#Introduction)

On the third hand :) scipy (https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.linregress.html) uses slope and intercept.

I thin "Line" is a good name for the result.

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