Regression – How to program the Best Fit Slope

https://pythonprogramming.net/how-to-program-best-fit-line-slope-machine-learning-tutorial/

This covers building up a Linear Regression model in Python based on the standard equation:-

Slope of the best fit line being equal to Mean of the X values times the Mean of the Y values, minus the Mean of the Xs times the Ys. Divided by the Mean of Xs to the power of 2, minus the of all the Xs to the power of 2 (I know confusing right lol).

 The code was a fairly straight forward application of math. Comments and learnings are in the code:-

# Import Libs
from statistics import mean
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# To set charts to save as images we need to change the default behaviour
from matplotlib import style # inport style to change default behaviour of plot
style.use('ggplot') # use ggplot

# Define values
xs = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6], dtype=np.float64) # dtype lets you set the data type. Not needed for this example but useful in future
ys = np.array([5,4,6,5,6,7], dtype=np.float64)

def best_fit_slope(xs, ys): # defining function to calculate slope (m) - passing values of xs and ys
    m = ( ((mean(xs)*mean(ys)) - mean(xs * ys)) / # bracket space at the start and space slash at the end allows for a carridge return in the code
        ((mean(xs)**2)-mean(xs**2)))  ## **2 raises to the power of 2
    return m

m = best_fit_slope(xs,ys)
print(m)

#plt.scatter(xs,ys)
#plt.savefig('ML_Tutorial8.png', bbox_inches='tight') #Sets the output to save an image
#plt.show() # exports the image