How to perform linear regression in BigQuery?

Question

BigQuery has some statistical aggregation functions such as STDDEV(X) and CORR(X, Y), but it doesn\'t offer functions to directly perform linear regression.

How can

Answer 1

Good news! BigQuery now has native support for ML.

To produce a linear regression CREATE MODEL, and then predict with SELECT FROM ML.PREDICT.

Docs:

• https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/bigqueryml

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