Session 2: Issues in linear regression
June 5 2008
Reading
G&H07 |
Chapter 4 (pp. 53-74) |
Linear regression: before and after fitting the model |
Baa08 |
Sections 6.2.2-6.2.4 (pp. 198-212) |
Collinearity, Model criticism, and Validation |
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Section 6.4 (pp. 234-239) |
Regression with breakpoints |
Notes on the readings
Additional terminology
Feel free to add terms you want clarified in class:
Questions
- Q: Determining the significance of a coefficient: one-tailed or two-tailed t test?
Suggested topics
If you have any material that you would like to cover that isn't included in the list below, please make note of it here.
Assignments
Upload your solutions to this page by 10pm.
G&H07 |
Section 4.9 (p.76) |
Exercise 4 |
Baa08 |
Section 6.7 (p. 260) |
Exercise 1, 8 |
In addition to the book problems, we will distribute a data set from the ongoing ngrams project.