Recent articles, such as McCauley-Bell et al. (1999) and Sánchez and Gómez (2003a, 2003b, 2004), used fuzzy regression (FR) in their analysis. Following Tanaka et. al. (1982), their regression models included a fuzzy output, fuzzy coefficients and an nonfuzzy input vector. The fuzzy components were assumed to be triangular fuzzy numbers (TFNs). The basic idea was to minimize the fuzziness of th...