Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Assigning shares of "relative importance" to each of a set of regressors is one of the key goals of researchers applying linear regression, particularly in sciences that work with observational data.

In this module, we will introduce generalized linear models (GLMs) through the study of binomial data. In particular, we will motivate the need for GLMs; introduce the binomial regression model, ...

Based on a statistic proposed by Cook (1977) for the detection of influential observations, we propose a measure for the influence of variables in linear-regression models, and we introduce the ...