The estimated or predicted values in a regression or other predictive model are termed the y-hat values. “Y” because y is the outcome or dependent variable in the model equation, and a “hat” symbol (circumflex) placed over the variable name is the statistical designation of an estimated value.
Statistics and data science, defined
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