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This article explains how to do regression in Excel, which is a way to automate the statistical process of comparing several sets of information to see how changes in independent variables affect ...

By contrast, nonlinear regression analysis or nonlinear least-squares fitting (NLSF) refers to equations that are nonlinear in their parameters.