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[Steve=Ravet%Prj=Eng%PCPD=Hou at bangate.compaq.com]

"Matthew Lee Franklin" <fran0054 at gold.tc.umn.edu> Wrote:
| Jason wrote:
| >If a straight line fit is required, take only two data points

| Actually to get a better line fit (one that has some statistical 
| significance), you're better off taking several points and then doing a 
| linear regression.  Even though it does indeed take only two points to 
| make a straight line, scatter in the taking of those data may nail you.  

Maybe Jason forgot these:

:-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

Or maybe they really weren't necessary.

--steve