***************************************** Results from using the R regression command Call: lm(formula = approval ~ unrate + inflation) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -24.00492 -6.09909 0.04854 5.92588 30.88987 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 69.7785 1.6279 42.864 < 2e-16 *** unrate -0.9258 0.2873 -3.222 0.00134 ** inflation -2.1394 0.1510 -14.168 < 2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1 Residual standard error: 9.872 on 567 degrees of freedom Multiple R-Squared: 0.3238, Adjusted R-squared: 0.3214 F-statistic: 135.8 on 2 and 567 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16 ***************************************** Results from doing it by hand intercept: 69.77847 unrate : -0.9257907 inflation: -2.139350 *****************************************