Session 2: Issues in linear regression

June 3 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

Section 6.4 (pp. 234-239)

Regression with breakpoints

Assignments

Send your solutions to Andrew Watts, who will upload them here. Please send them by Wednesday 3:30pm or upload them yourself 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.

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