Because fuel economy is a continuous measure, the prediction model will be a regression model, with the various technical specifications as the predictor variables and fuel economy as the response.

Description and examples of linear regression/multiple linear regression implementation in MATLAB, Python, and R I used the same data set (Linear_regression_data.txt) across MATLAB, Python, and R to ...

This page works through an example of fitting a logistic model with the iteratively-reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm. If you'd like to examine the algorithm in more detail, here is Matlab ...