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Other lines parallel to a Best fit line on a scatter graph?

Can you put Lines of equal gradient to the best fit line on a scatter graph going through to points furthest above and below the best fit line?

MacBook Air, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Sep 11, 2014 9:35 AM

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Sep 11, 2014 1:12 PM in response to CalumScotland

When I first read your question I was totally confused what you were asking. Then it sounded kind of like you were asking to extend the linear fit line. Or maybe you actually want to make parallel lines. If you want parallel lines, you will have to create the linear fit line and all your parallel lines in your table instead of using the trendline feature of charts.The SLOPE function will give you the slope of your X-Y data. The INTERCEPT function gives you the intercept. Parallel lines simply have different intercepts with the same slope. Plot those extra columns of data, sharing the X axis data.

Other lines parallel to a Best fit line on a scatter graph?

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