Learn how the line of best fit in regression analysis shows relationships between variables, how it's calculated, and its applications in finance.

Business forecasting is essential for the survival for companies of all sizes. The building block used by forecasters is historical data or the past performance of the business to predict future ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many of Pew Research Center’s survey analyses show relationships between two ...

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 ...

Understanding one of the most important types of data analysis. by Amy Gallo You probably know by now that whenever possible you should be making data-driven decisions at work. But do you know how to ...

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, ...

Recently linear rank statistics with censored data have been used as the estimating functions for the regression parameters in the linear model with an unspecified ...

The Durbin Watson statistic is a number that tests for autocorrelation in the residuals from a statistical regression analysis.