Applying regression and correlation a guide for students and researchers

• Main Authors: Miles, Jeremy 1968- (Author), Shevlin Mark (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Sage Pub 2001
• Subjects: Regression analysis; Correlation (Statistics)
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 This book takes a fresh look at applying regression analysis in the behavioural sciences by introducing the reader to regression analysis through a simple model-building approach. The authors start with the basics and begin by re-visiting the mean, and the standard deviation, with which most readers will already be familiar, and show that they can be thought of a least squares model. The book then shows that this least squares model is actually a special case of a regression analysis and can be extended to deal with first one, and then more than one independent variable. Extending the model from the mean to a regression analysis provides a powerful, but simple, way of thinking about what students believe