Applied economists have long struggled with the question of how to accommodate binary endogenous regressors in models with binary and nonnegative outcomes. I argue here that much of the difficulty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The short course will illustrate how to use JMP in linear regression analysis. The three main topics will be: Exploratory data analysis, simple liner regression and polynomial regression How to fit a ...

Methods to determine the validity of regression models include comparison of model predictions and coefficients with theory, collection of new data to check model predictions, comparison of results ...

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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, ...