[SciPy-User] Terminology question

[Robert Kern]

2010/3/24 Ernest Adrogué <eadrogue at gmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for this slightly off-topic question..
>
> In a statistical model, what do you call the equation that
> defines the independent variable in terms of one or more
> dependent variables?
>
> Is it the "model equation"? The "regression function"?
> I have very good names for everything else, except for the
> bloody equation :(

"The model" is usually fine. For multidimensional linear regression,
this is often called "the design matrix".

-- 
Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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