The first step in running regression analysis in Excel is to double-check that the free plugin Data Analysis ToolPak is installed. This plugin makes calculating a range of statistics very easy. It is ...

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Understanding one of the most important types of data analysis. by Amy Gallo You probably know by now that whenever possible you should be making data-driven decisions at work. But do you know how to ...

It only makes sense. I did linear regression in google docs and I did it for python. But what if you neither of those? Can you do it by hand? Why yes. Suppose I take the same data from the pylab ...

A quantitative study is made of the bias in the usual estimate of the linear correlation coefficient and of the relative efficiency of the estimated regression, when a certain type of selective ...

Using a hypothetical data set, the authors provide concrete examples to illustrate that canonical correlation analysis is a general linear model, subsuming other parametric procedures as special cases ...