Physics307L:Help/Fitting a line

Take home message from this class

There are statistically sound methods for obtaining the maximum likelihood slope and intercept to fit a set of data of the form [math]\displaystyle{ (x_i,y_i) }[/math]. This really is the take home message...I want you to remember enough to know that you can do it and to be able to quickly find the resources so you can remind yourself of the necessary assumptions about the data and the formulas (or algorithms) for calculating the best fit values, along with uncertainty.