The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...

Linear regression, also called simple regression, is one of the most common techniques of regression analysis. Multiple regression is a broader class of regression analysis, which encompasses both ...

Last month we explored how to model a simple relationship between two variables, such as the dependence of weight on height 1. In the more realistic scenario of dependence on several variables, we can ...

Now that you've got a good sense of how to "speak" R, let's use it with linear regression to make distinctive predictions. The R system has three components: a scripting language, an interactive ...