Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

Learn what residual standard deviation is, how to calculate it in regression analysis, and why it's crucial for measuring predictability and goodness-of-fit in data modeling.

Learn how to build a simple linear regression model in C++ using the least squares method. This step-by-step tutorial walks you through calculating the slope and intercept, predicting new values, and ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many of Pew Research Center’s survey analyses show relationships between two ...

In this module, we will introduce generalized linear models (GLMs) through the study of binomial data. In particular, we will motivate the need for GLMs; introduce the binomial regression model, ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Oct., 2000), pp. 1245-1278 (34 pages) The interval mapping method has been shown to be a powerful tool for mapping QTL. However, it is still a challenge to ...

Recently linear rank statistics with censored data have been used as the estimating functions for the regression parameters in the linear model with an unspecified ...