Correlation/Regression

  • By Elizabeth Stasny

    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

  • Cancer has been linked to nitrites in processed red meats like sausages. And sausages have been found linked to....other sausages.
  • 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 - )

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