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  2. Regression analysis - Wikipedia

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    First, regression analysis is widely used for prediction and forecasting, where its use has substantial overlap with the field of machine learning. Second, in some situations regression analysis can be used to infer causal relationships between the independent and dependent variables. Importantly, regressions by themselves only reveal ...

  3. Linear regression - Wikipedia

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    Linear regression was the first type of regression analysis to be studied rigorously, and to be used extensively in practical applications. [4] This is because models which depend linearly on their unknown parameters are easier to fit than models which are non-linearly related to their parameters and because the statistical properties of the ...

  4. Logistic regression - Wikipedia

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    The reason for using logistic regression for this problem is that the values of the dependent variable, pass and fail, while represented by "1" and "0", are not cardinal numbers. If the problem was changed so that pass/fail was replaced with the grade 0–100 (cardinal numbers), then simple regression analysis could be used.

  5. Ordinary least squares - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, ordinary least squares (OLS) is a type of linear least squares method for choosing the unknown parameters in a linear regression model (with fixed level-one [clarification needed] effects of a linear function of a set of explanatory variables) by the principle of least squares: minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed dependent variable (values ...

  6. Least squares - Wikipedia

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    The result of fitting a set of data points with a quadratic function Conic fitting a set of points using least-squares approximation. In regression analysis, least squares is a parameter estimation method based on minimizing the sum of the squares of the residuals (a residual being the difference between an observed value and the fitted value provided by a model) made in the results of each ...

  7. Outline of regression analysis - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to regression analysis: Regression analysisuse of statistical techniques for learning about the relationship between one or more dependent variables ( Y ) and one or more independent variables ( X ).

  8. Polynomial regression - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] In the twentieth century, polynomial regression played an important role in the development of regression analysis, with a greater emphasis on issues of design and inference. [5] More recently, the use of polynomial models has been complemented by other methods, with non-polynomial models having advantages for some classes of problems.

  9. Ordinal regression - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, ordinal regression, also called ordinal classification, is a type of regression analysis used for predicting an ordinal variable, i.e. a variable whose value exists on an arbitrary scale where only the relative ordering between different values is significant.