How to choose the best Linear Regression model — A comprehensive guide for beginners

Yousef Nami
Towards Data Science
13 min readOct 2, 2020

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If you are a beginner in data science or statistics with some background on linear regression and are looking for ways to evaluate your models, then this guide might be for you.

This article will discuss the following metrics for choosing the ‘best’ linear regression model: R-Squared (R²), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean…

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