beta

Syntax

beta(Y, X)

Arguments

Y and X are vectors of the same length

Details

Return the coefficient estimate of an ordinary-least-squares regression of Y on X (with intercept).

Examples

$ x=1 3 5 7 11 16 23
$ y=0.1 4.2 5.6 8.8 22.1 35.6 77.2;

$ beta(y,x);
3.378632