Linear Regression Using R An Introduction to Data Modeling

Linear Regression Using R: An Introduction to Data Modeling presents one of the fundamental data modeling techniques in an informal tutorial style. Learn how to predict system outputs from measured data using a detailed step-by-step process to develop, train, and test reliable regression models. Key...

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Main Author: Lilja, David J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing [2016]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 What is a Linear Regression Model?
  • 1.2 What is R?
  • 1.3 What's Next?
  • 2 Understand Your Data
  • 2.1 Missing Values
  • 2.2 Sanity Checking and Data Cleaning
  • 2.3 The Example Data
  • 2.4 Data Frames
  • 2.5 Accessing a Data Frame
  • 3 One-Factor Regression
  • 3.1 Visualize the Data
  • 3.2 The Linear Model Function
  • 3.3 Evaluating the Quality of the Model
  • 3.4 Residual Analysis
  • 4 Multi-factor Regression
  • 4.1 Visualizing the Relationships in the Data
  • 4.2 Identifying Potential Predictors
  • 4.3 The Backward Elimination Process
  • 4.4 An Example of the Backward Elimination Process
  • 4.5 Residual Analysis
  • 4.6 When Things Go Wrong
  • 5 Predicting Responses
  • 5.1 Data Splitting for Training and Testing
  • 5.2 Training and Testing
  • 5.3 Predicting Across Data Sets
  • 6 Reading Data into the R Environment
  • 6.1 Reading CSV files
  • 7 Summary8 A Few Things to Try NextBibliographyIndex