Linear regression can be a quite powerful tool, especially if (maybe counter-intuitively at first) it is used to fit exponentials [1] or polynomials to data. [1

Linear regression can be a quite powerful tool, especially if (maybe counter-intuitively at first) it is used to fit exponentials [1] or polynomials to data. [1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeastSquaresFittingExponential.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeastSquaresFittingExponential....