Introduction to Simple Linear Regression in Python

Welcome to the session on ‘Simple Linear Regression in Python’. So far, we have discussed the theory part of simple linear regression. Now, let’s move on to building a simple linear regression model in Python.

In this session

You will learn about the generic steps that are required to build a simple linear regression model. You will first read and visualise the dataset. Next, you will split the dataset into train and test sets. After that, you will build the model on the training data and draw inferences. We have used the dataset and example from the ISLR book. You will use the advertising dataset given in ISLR and analyse the relationship between 'TV advertising' and 'sales' using a simple linear regression model. You will learn to make a linear model using two different libraries - statsmodels and SKLearn.

But before you move on to the Python code, let's do a quick recap of what you have learnt so far.

People you will hear from in this session

Subject Matter Expert

Mirza Rahim Baig
Lead Business Analyst at Flipkart