Dear forum members,
How can I force a negative slope in a linear regression even though the
slope might be positive?
I will need it for the purpose of determining the trend due reasons other
than biological because the biological (genetic) trend is not positive for
these data.
Thanks. Julia
Example of the data:
[1] 1.254 1.235 1.261 0.952 1.202 1.152 0.801 0.424 0.330 0.251 0.229 0.246
[13] 0.414 0.494 0.578 0.628 0.514 0.594 0.827 0.812 0.629 0.928 0.707 0.976
[25] 1.099 1.039 1.272 1.398 1.926 1.987 2.132 1.644 2.174 2.453 2.392 3.002
[37] 3.352 2.410 2.206 2.692 2.653 1.604 2.536 3.070 3.137 4.187 4.803 4.575
[49] 4.580 3.779 4.201 5.685 4.915 5.929 5.474 6.140 5.182 5.524 5.848 5.830
[61] 5.800 7.517 6.422
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