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Calculate slope and intercept value for logarithmic trendline as excel


I am generating Logarithmic trendlines and used Excel formula for this. But i can't calculate slope and intercept value as calculated in Excel. I think, i did some mistakes in my formula.

This is my code

 var X= [10, 25, 30, 40]; Y= [5, 4, 7, 12];

 var Slope, Intercept, SX = 0, SY = 0,
            SXX = 0, SXY = 0, SYY = 0,
            SumProduct = 0, N = X.length;

            for (var i = 0; i < N; i++) {
                SX = SX + X[i];
                SY = SY + Y[i];
                SXY = SXY + X[i] * Y[i];
                SXX = SXX + X[i] * X[i];
                SYY = SYY + Y[i] * Y[i];
            }

            Slope = ((N * SXY) - (SX * SY)) / ((N * SXX) - (SX * SX));

            Intercept = (SY - (Slope * SX)) / N;

Fiddle link

Excel Formula:

Logarithmic Equation: y=(c*LN(x))+b

where:

c = INDEX(LINEST(y,LN(x)),1)
b = INDEX(LINEST(y,LN(x)),1,2)

Screenshot for Excel output

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Please suggest how to derive the Excel formula in JavaScript.


Solution

  • You missed Math.log() for ln() in Excel. Edit for parts like this.

    for (var i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        SX = SX + Math.log(X[i]);
        SY = SY + Y[i];
        SXY = SXY + Math.log(X[i]) * Y[i];
        SXX = SXX + Math.log(X[i]) * Math.log(X[i]);
        SYY = SYY + Y[i] * Y[i];
    }
    

    I've verified the output is the sams as Excel.

    > Slope
    3.8860409979365333
    > Intercept
    -5.252238189415747