(-1.06) * VISITOR CENTER COUNTS + 37,021
I'm actually quite curious about how these formulas are derived from regression analysis, so did brief search and learned that its the correlating easy-to-track metrics (visitor counts) with historical field audits. It’s a pragmatic but imperfect attempt to bridge the "data-reality gap" in a park with no front door.
It is especially important when we use automated processes to create datasets, like web scraping, which are also more likely to distance us from individual data points.
I realize the importance of this part during my research experience where i faced with huge dataset, to examine and figure out each cell is indeed important especially when we're not originally familiar with the dataset