When teaching cost behavior in a managerial or cost accounting course, we explain that there are various methods a company can use to estimate its fixed and variable costs, including regression ...

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Regression is a statistical method that allows us to look at the relationship between two variables, while holding other factors equal.

Next, have Excel run the regression on the two columns of return data you generated. Under the Data menu, the Data Analysis button allows you to select Regression.

Lesson 9 Simple Linear Regression The purpose of this tutorial is to continue our exploration of multivariate statistics by conducting a simple (one explanatory variable) linear regression analysis.