Computes a linear relationship model between two variables using least-squares fitting. Given variables x and y, the relationship is
y = slope * x + interceptThe result is output in fields named _slope and _intercept — unless a different prefix than _ is specified. Also output are the adjusted R-squared value _r2 and the number of data points _n. No output is produced, however, if all x values are the same or if all y values are the same.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
prefix | string | false | _ | Prefix for the names of all the output fields. |
x | string | true | The name of the field containing the independent variable. | |
y | string | true | The name of the field containing the dependent variable. |
linReg() Examples
Find the correlation between the bytes sent in a server response and the time to send them.
linReg(x=bytes_sent, y=send_duration)Find the correlation between server load and total response size across time.
bucket(function=[ sum(bytes_sent, as=x), avg(server_load_pct, as=y) ])
| linReg(x=x, y=y)Find the correlation between server load and each of several types of request types across time.
bucket(function=[ avg(server_load_pct, as=y), groupby(request_type, function=count(as=x)) ])
| groupby(request_type, function=linReg(x=x, y=y))