C Program forLeast Square Regression Line and Errors - c

Question

I wanted to create a program to calculate the regression line of some given data, along with the errors, so I can use in my university assignments. This is the following program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
int main(void)
{
int i,n,N;
double x[n],y[n],a=0.0,b=0.0,c=0.0,d=0.0,D,P=0.0,p,Sx,A,B,dA,dB;
printf("Give the number of data you want to input for x : ");
scanf("\n%d", &N);
printf("\nGive the values of x : ");
for (i=1; i<=N; i++);
{
printf("\n Enter x[%d] = ", i);
scanf("%lf", &x[i]);
a+=x[i];
b+=pow(x[i],2);
}
printf("\nGive the values of y : ");
for (i=1; i<=N; i++);
{
printf("\n Enter y[%d] = ", i);
scanf("%lf", &y[i]);
c+=y[i];
}
D=N*b-pow(a,2);
A=(b*c-a*d)/D;
B=(N*d-a*c)/D;
for (i=1; i<=N; i++);
{
d+=x[i]*y[i];
p=y[i]-A-B*x[i];
P+=pow(p,2);
}
Sx=sqrt(P/N-2);
dA=Sx*sqrt(b/D);
dB=Sx*sqrt(N/D);
printf("\n x \t \t \t y");
for (i=1; i<=N; i++);
printf("\nx[%d] = %lf\t%lf = y[%d]", x[i],y[i]);
printf("\nA = %lf\t B = %lf", A,B);
printf("\nThe errors of A & B are dA = %lf and dB = %lf", dA,dB);
printf("\nThe equation of the regression line is y=%lfx+(%lf)", B,A);
return 0;
}
I have two problems.
Despite giving a value to N, the program runs so that I can only give one value for x and one value for y. Why and where is the mistake?
When printing the "Enter x[%d]", it displays x[11] and at the end when printing "x[%d] = %lf\t%lf = y[%d]", it displays x[0]. Again why and where is the mistake?
Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

You are trying to create a dynamic array in C.
To do that, you need to use dynamic memory allocation with malloc and free. So, your code should look something like this:
int N;
double *x;
printf("Give the number of data you want to input for x :\n");
scanf("%d", &N);
x = malloc(sizeof(double) * N);
Then, at the end of your program you need to free the memory:
free(x);
If you don't want to deal with manual memory management (or can't for some reason), you can use a static maximum array size like this:
#define MAX_N_X 100
int main(void) {
int N;
double x[MAX_N_X];
printf("Give the number of data you want to input for x :\n");
scanf("%d", &N);
if (N > MAX_N_X) {
printf("Can't handle that many inputs! Maximum %d\n", MAX_N_X);
return 0;
}
}
You simply missed two parameters to printf.
Yo wrote:
printf("\nx[%d] = %lf\t%lf = y[%d]", x[i],y[i]);
But it should be:
printf("\nx[%d] = %lf\t%lf = y[%d]", i, x[i], y[i], i);

Answer 2

I found the main problem with this program a few days after posting this and the fix would be removing the ; from the for commands, along with some other minor changes. I thought I might add this comment to let you know and now it is working like a charm. The simplest of mistakes fools even the trained eyes. After I found this, I was shocked that no one picked up on this mistake.