Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...

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Last month we explored how to model a simple relationship between two variables, such as the dependence of weight on height 1. In the more realistic scenario of dependence on several variables, we can ...

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Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...

The purpose of this tutorial is to continue our exploration of regression by constructing linear models with two or more explanatory variables. This is an extension of Lesson 9. I will start with a ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Compared to standard linear ...