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| | Regression Analysis: How Do I Interpret R-squared and Assess the Goodness-of-Fit?
| | www.johnmyleswhite.com
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| | One of the misuses of statistical terminology that annoys me most is the use of the word "correlation" to describe any variable that increases as another variable increases. This monotonic trend seems worth looking for, but it plainly is not what most people discover when they use standard correlation coefficients. This is because the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, which is usually the only correlation coefficient students learn to calculate, is strongly biased towards linear trends: tho...
| | aosmith.rbind.io
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| | Extending my simulation examples into the world of generalized linear models, I simulate Poisson data to explore what a quadratic relationship looks like on the scale of the data when fitting a generalized linear model with a log link.
| | coornail.net
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| In the previous section we learned how to process Bearable's date field, and how to visualize some data points. Today we will learn to look for correlations between factors.