Fitting a straight line?
Be sure to check assumptions,
Plot residuals.
Your plot shows a curve?
Try a polynomial:
x² or x³
Partitioning the
SSE or SSR - -
Partial Sums of Squares.
How did the statistician study the new device for measuring the weight of trees?
He used the log scale.
Bruce White
How do car manufacturers study trends in sales?
They use autocorrelation.
Bruce White
Professor: Investigate whether logistic regression is the best model for your analysis.
Student: Okay - I'll probit.
Larry Lesser
Q. Who publishes books on real estate experiments for statisticians?
A. Random House.
Q. Who publishes the correlation and regression books that statisticians are always talking about?
A. Pearson
Larry Lesser
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing "look over there"
Randall P. Munroe (1984 - )
Avoid Linear extrapolation ... The turkey's first 1000 days are a seemingly unending succession of gradually improving circumstances confirmed by daily experience. What happens on Day 1001? Thanksgiving.
John E. Sener (1954 - )