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Aug 12, 2015 at 12:47 comment added Ivan Thanks again, @whuber, you clarified a conceptual problem. It is indeed a $1+\delta/100$ thing, not a constant value, so indeed the two regression lines should not be parallel. The comparison and finding the $\delta$ value problems stand.
Aug 12, 2015 at 12:18 comment added Ivan I have the same independent variable for both experiments, I´m not regressing the two dependent variables against each other.
Aug 12, 2015 at 12:16 comment added whuber If you gather the data in two different ways, then you have two variables, not one (or, if you like, two distinct measurements of the same "variable"--but those measurements must be managed and analyzed as two separate variables). But is there some other variable involved in your regressions or are you regressing these variables against each other?
Aug 12, 2015 at 12:13 comment added Ivan I´m doing a linear regression with only one dependent variable. Having the same phenomena and two different ways of gathering the data, I agree that I have two sets of variables. There is no other variable involved.
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Aug 7, 2015 at 13:29 comment added whuber Parallel regression lines would suggest that a constant had been added to the values, rather than a constant percentage applied (which would be understood as multiplying each value $y$ by a constant $1 + \delta/100$, where $\delta$ is the percentage). Could you clarify which of these operations you mean? And exactly what "linear regressions" are you performing? Is there another variable involved?
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