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 ...

John A. Jacquez, Frances J. Mather and Charles R. Crawford The theory of simple linear regression is extended to the case of non-uniform error variances for the ...

All of the predictive methods implemented in PROC PLS work essentially by finding linear combinations of the predictors (factors) to use to predict the responses linearly. The methods differ only in ...

The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...

In polynomial regression, the values of a dependent variable (also called a response variable) are described or predicted in terms of polynomial terms involving one or more independent or explanatory ...