DECREMENTAL SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION COEFFICIENT CALCULATION FOR BIG DATA OR STREAMED DATA USING COMPONENTS

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for decrementally calculating simple linear regression coefficients for Big Data or streamed data. Embodiments of the invention include decrementally calculating one or more components of simple linear regression coefficients for a modified computation set based on the one or more components of simple linear regression coefficients calculated for a previous computation set and then calculating the simple linear regression coefficients for the modified computation set based on the decrementally calculated components. Decrementally calculating simple linear regression coefficients avoids visiting all data elements in the modified computation set and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.