Before building my model, I want to step back to offer an easy-to-understand definition of linear regression and why it’s vital to analyzing data. What is linear regression?

To discover the linear relationship, we could measure the weight of three individuals at each height and apply linear regression to model the mean weight as a function of height using a straight ...

Simple linear regression is commonly used in forecasting and financial analysis—for a company to tell how a change in the GDP could affect sales, for example. Microsoft Excel and other software ...

In this paper we develop a generalized partial linear model for longitudinal data. In the model, we allow the link and baseline functions to be unknown. We explicitly express the estimators of ...