QUOTE OF THE DAY
"While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them." -- Frederick Mosteller
First we finish up factor analysis from last week. Then we introduce regression models.
Correlation as the expected number of SD's that Y goes up when X goes up by 1 SD
Linear models of the form Y = b0+b1X1+b2X2+ε
When to use various regression-like methods
Using Excel solver
Slides
Datasets
David Freedman, Robert Pisani & Roger Purves (1998) Statistics, 3rd Ed. New York: Norton [a superb textbook -- very introductory]