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Application of Regression Analysts to the Power Function

P. C. McWilliams, J. E. Furchner, Charlie Richmond

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With electronic computers to do the labor, it is possible to perform regression analyses on power and exponential functions without recourse to logarithmic transformations. It is emphasized that fitting a function of the form, Y = aXb, to experimental data may give results guite different from those obtained by fitting a function of the form, log Y = log a + b log X, to logarithms of the same data.

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Key concepts: Logarithm, Power function, Exponential function, Function (biology), Regression, Regression analysis, Power (physics), Linear regression