At times it is desirable to have independent variables in the model that are qualitative rather than quantitative. This is easily handled in a regression framework. Regression uses qualitative ...

Marketing research professionals often use inferential or descriptive statistics to guide major marketing decisions. There are a number of statistical tests that explore the relationship between the ...

In simple linear regression, there is a single quantitative independent variable. Suppose, for example, that you want to determine whether a linear relationship exists between the asking price for a ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 2006), pp. 535-561 (27 pages) The authors propose a new monotone nonparametric estimate for a regression ...

Learn how hedonic regression helps estimate factors affecting prices in real estate and consumer goods, aiding in precise ...

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 62, No. 4 (2000), pp. 699-709 (11 pages) An adjusted least squares estimator, introduced by Cheng and Schneeweiss for ...

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 ...