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How to run R-style linear regressions in Python the easy way

If you have experience with R or want a quick way to generate a regression with statsmodels using a pandas DataFrame, you can ...
Kellogg School of Management

Interpreting a Regression Analysis

Beside the model, the other input into a regression analysis is some relevant sample data, consisting of the observed values of the dependent and explanatory variables for a sample of members of the ...
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A Maximum Likelihood Method for Piecewise Regression Models with a Continuous Dependent Variable

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 30, No. 2 (1981), pp. 116-124 (9 pages) This paper develops a maximum likelihood method for estimating a piecewise ...
Nature

Logistic regression

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...
International Monetary Fund

What Is Econometrics?

ECONOMISTS develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “What Are Economic Models,” F&D, ...