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 # regtools 
 
-## Novel tools tools for linear, nonlinear and nonparametric regression.
+## Novel tools for linear, nonlinear and nonparametric regression.
 
 These tools are associated with my forthcoming book, <i>From Linear
 Models to Machine Learning: Modern Statistical Regression and