I was learning seaborn
, but could not find the full name of seaborn.lmplot
. What is 'l' and 'm' in the name 'lmplot'.
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"lm" = "linear model". As reported in the docs:
Plot data and regression model fits across a FacetGrid. [...] It is intended as a convenient interface to fit regression models across conditional subsets of a dataset.
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4$\begingroup$ The documentation does not use the phrase 'linear model'. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 23, 2022 at 4:48
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"lm"="linear multiple". As reported in the docs:
See also
lmplot Combine regplot() and FacetGrid to plot multiple linear relationships in a dataset.