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How to Make a Regression Table in Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010 comes with an expansion pack called the Analysis ToolPak that includes a number of analylitical tools, like the ability to create a ...

VIDEO: It's easy to run a regression in Excel and you only need to understand a few data points to make sense of the results.

In this tutorial, we'll explore what linear regression is, why it's useful, and the Excel tools that enable you to do it with the click of a few buttons.

Figure 1: The results of multiple linear regression depend on the correlation of the predictors, as measured here by the Pearson correlation coefficient r (ref. 2).