The Counter-Intuitive Nature of Probabilistic Relationships

If y can be estimated as a linear function of x does not imply that x can also be estimated as a linear function of y

Consider two real-valued variables x and y, for example, the height of a father and the height of his son. The central problem of regression analyses in statistics is to guess y by knowing x, …

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