How can I make this chart?

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As far as the chart goes -- what I see is a basic scatter plot. There are three data series (meaning there are three sets of data in the spreadsheet) -- one for the S-curve, one for the horizontal line, and a third for the sloped line. Your question indicates that "don't know how to make lines and find their intersection." Here's how I would expect to do this:

1) Regression step to find the slopes and intercepts of the two lines.
1a) Extract data from the raw data for the horizontal line.
1b) Perform regression (LINEST(), or SLOPE()/INTERCEPT(), or other) on the extracted data to get slope and intercept. There may need to be some thought into whether you intend to coerce the slope of this line to 0 or not.
1c) Repeat steps 1a and 1b for the sloped line based on data in the middle of the curve.
Alternate 1) or maybe you want to perform an overall regression that fits all of the data to an s-shaped curve, then use calculus on that to compute slope and intercept for the end points and the "inflection" center point.

2) With slope and intercept for each line, you can readily compute the point of intersection using the strategies you (hopefully) learned long ago in algebra class for solving systems of equations (http://www.purplemath.com/modules/systlin1.htm ).

3) To add the lines to the chart, you can compute a couple of points for each line using the slope and intercept in the spreadsheet. Then add those points to the chart as additional data series.

With the process broken down into steps like that, is there a particular step or part that you are stuck on? Step 1) seems the least well defined at this point, since I am not certain exactly what approach or algorithms you would want to use to determine the slope and intercept of the two lines. Once that part is done, step 2 and 3 are fairly straightforward.

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I'm still not sure how you want to tackle the regression step (step 1). You have a slope and intercept function in the spreadsheet, but they perform the regression over the entire data set. What are you trying to see by performing the regression over the entire data set? I would have expected a "piecewise regression" where you compute the slope and intercept over, for example, rows 6 to 11 for the horizontal line and over rows 13 to 17 (maybe) for the sloped line. Do you understand why I might choose those rows for the piecewise regression steps? Obviously, you understand how to enter the SLOPE() and INTERCEPT() functions, can I assume that you can edit the ranges to reflect the desired inputs to each regression?

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