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Linear Regression Essentials in R
Linear regression (or linear model) is used to predict a quantitative outcome variable (y) on the basis of one or mult...
Interaction Effect in Multiple Regression: Essentials
This chapter describes how to compute multiple linear regression with interaction effects. Previously, we have describ...
Regression with Categorical Variables: Dummy Coding Essentials in R
This chapter describes how to compute regression with categorical variables. Categorical variables (also known as fact...
Nonlinear Regression Essentials in R: Polynomial and Spline Regression Models
In some cases, the true relationship between the outcome and a predictor variable might not be linear. There are diff...
Linear Regression Assumptions and Diagnostics in R: Essentials
Linear regression (Chapter @ref(linear-regression)) makes several assumptions about the data at hand. This chapter des...
Multicollinearity Essentials and VIF in R
In multiple regression (Chapter @ref(linear-regression)), two or more predictor variables might be correlated with eac...
Confounding Variable Essentials
A Confounding variable is an important variable that should be included in the predictive model but you omit it.Naive i...
Regression Model Accuracy Metrics: R-square, AIC, BIC, Cp and more
In this chapter we’ll describe different statistical regression metrics for measuring the performance of a regressio...
Cross-Validation Essentials in R
Cross-validation refers to a set of methods for measuring the performance of a given predictive model on new test dat...
Bootstrap Resampling Essentials in R
Similarly to cross-validation techniques (Chapter @ref(cross-validation)), the bootstrap resampling method can be used...
Best Subsets Regression Essentials in R
The best subsets regression is a model selection approach that consists of testing all possible combination of the pre...
Stepwise Regression Essentials in R
The stepwise regression (or stepwise selection) consists of iteratively adding and removing predictors, in the predict...
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Practical Guide to Principal Component Methods in R
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R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics
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