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All major statistical software packages perform least squares regression analysis and inference. Simple linear regression and multiple regression using least squares can be done in some spreadsheet applications and on some calculators. While many statistical software packages can perform various types of nonparametric and robust regression ...
Multiple linear regression is a generalization of simple linear regression to the case of more than one independent variable, and a special case of general linear models, restricted to one dependent variable. The basic model for multiple linear regression is
A model with exactly one explanatory variable is a simple linear regression; a model with two or more explanatory variables is a multiple linear regression. [1] This term is distinct from multivariate linear regression, which predicts multiple correlated dependent variables rather than a single dependent variable. [2]
The classical, frequentists linear least squares solution is to simply estimate the matrix of regression coefficients ^ using the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse: ^ = (). To obtain the Bayesian solution, we need to specify the conditional likelihood and then find the appropriate conjugate prior.
Certain types of problems involving multivariate data, for example simple linear regression and multiple regression, are not usually considered to be special cases of multivariate statistics because the analysis is dealt with by considering the (univariate) conditional distribution of a single outcome variable given the other variables.
Although polynomial regression fits a nonlinear model to the data, as a statistical estimation problem it is linear, in the sense that the regression function E(y | x) is linear in the unknown parameters that are estimated from the data. For this reason, polynomial regression is considered to be a special case of multiple linear regression. [1]
Conceptual diagram of a simple moderation model in which the effect of the focal antecedent (X) on the outcome (Y) is influenced or dependent on a moderator (W). A statistical diagram of a simple moderation model. Moderation analysis in the behavioral sciences involves the use of linear multiple regression analysis or causal modelling. [1]
The general regression model with n observations and k explanators, the first of which is a constant unit vector whose coefficient is the regression intercept, is = + where y is an n × 1 vector of dependent variable observations, each column of the n × k matrix X is a vector of observations on one of the k explanators, is a k × 1 vector of true coefficients, and e is an n × 1 vector of the ...