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What is QR decomposition in Linear Regression?
Updated May 16, 2026
Short answer
QR decomposition is a numerical method to solve linear regression more stably.
Deep explanation
Instead of inverting XᵀX, QR decomposition breaks X into orthogonal (Q) and upper triangular (R) matrices, improving numerical stability.
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