Prediction Intervals in Linear Regression

Nathan Maton
Towards Data Science
3 min readSep 19, 2019

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This post covers how to calculate prediction intervals for Linear Regression. Normally when modeling, we get a single value from a regression model. But what if that value is used to plan or make important decisions?

Then a single value may overstate our confidence when we’d like to know our uncertainty or error margin. Sure, you can look at a general error score for all of your predictions…

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