Simple Linear Regression
Simple Linear Regression
Simple Linear Regression
Student Manual
Practical No 2
Aim: Implementation of Simple Linear Regression using python Code
Software Required: R Studio/Anaconda
Theory: Simple linear regression is an approach for predicting a response using a single
feature. It is assumed that the two variables are linearly related. Hence, we try to find a linear
function that predicts the response value(y) as accurately as possible as a function of the
feature or independent variable(x). Let us consider a dataset where we have a value of
response y for every feature x:
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Now, the task is to find a line that fits best in the above scatter plot so that
we can predict the response for any new feature values. (i.e a value of x not
present in a dataset)
This line is called a regression line.
The equation of regression line is represented as:
Here,
h(x_i) represents the predicted response value for ith observation.
b_0 and b_1 are regression coefficients and represent y-
intercept and slope of regression line respectively.
To create our model, we must “learn” or estimate the values of regression
coefficients b_0 and b_1. And once we’ve estimated these coefficients, we
can use the model to predict responses!
In this article, we are going to use the principle of Least Squares.
Now consider:
and our task is to find the value of b_0 and b_1 for which J(b_0,b_1) is
minimum! Without going into the mathematical details, we present the result
here:
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Code:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def estimate_coef(x, y):
# number of observations/points
n = np.size(x)
# mean of x and y vector
m_x = np.mean(x)
m_y = np.mean(y)
# calculating cross-deviation and deviation about x
SS_xy = np.sum(y*x) - n*m_y*m_x
SS_xx = np.sum(x*x) - n*m_x*m_x
# calculating regression coefficients
b_1 = SS_xy / SS_xx
b_0 = m_y - b_1*m_x
return (b_0, b_1)
def plot_regression_line(x, y, b):
# plotting the actual points as scatter plot
plt.scatter(x, y, color = "m",
marker = "o", s = 30)
# predicted response vector
y_pred = b[0] + b[1]*x
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# plotting the regression line
plt.plot(x, y_pred, color = "g")
# putting labels
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y')
# function to show plot
plt.show()
def main():
# observations / data
x = np.array([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])
y = np.array([1, 3, 2, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 12])
# estimating coefficients
b = estimate_coef(x, y)
print("Estimated coefficients:\nb_0 = {} \
\nb_1 = {}".format(b[0], b[1]))
# plotting regression line
plot_regression_line(x, y, b)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Output:
Estimated coefficients:
b_0 = -0.0586206896552
b_1 = 1.45747126437
And graph obtained looks like this:
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