Essays Tagged: "Linear function"

Regression Analysis

1053888481185121176161377201578201699221491026202MethodologyGiven the circumstances, "in the simple linear regression model, y is a linear function of x (the β0 + β1 Xi part) plus єi. ... eferred to as the error term"(Anderson, Sweeney & Williams, 2000, pg. 450). To state the simple linear equation succinctly; yi = β0 + β1x + єi. The yi equals the predicted value of ...

(4 pages) 433 0 3.0 Jan/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Macromodelling

ly interested in percentage increases in GDP. Using the log form means that a steady growth gives a linear function, whereas without the log form we would have to use an exponential functional form.Eq ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Linear Programming

Linear Programming History of linear programming goes back as far as 1940s. Main motivation for the ... they needed ways to solve many complex planning problems. The simplex method which is used to solve linear programming was developed by George B. Dantzig, in 1947. Dantzig, was one in who did a lot of ... him, asking "speed up the planning process". Discovery of the simplex method was his solution.Linear programming is a powerful tool to solve many problems that arise in many different areas of t ...

(1 pages) 22 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Math Functions

o discuss the properties and uses of several kinds of algebraic functions. The four models include, linear, exponential, power, and inverse power. The purpose of this assignment is to review our under ... o fulfill a writing piece for the MEAP test. The first and simplest function to be discussed is the linear function.A linear function can be modeled by the equation f(x)=ax+b, where a is the slope and ...

(2 pages) 31 1 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics