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Computing a linear regression

Computing a linear regression

From the course: SPSS: Data Visualizing and Data Wrangling

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Computing a linear regression

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- [Instructor] We've been going through a progression in this course, where we first look at one variable, and then proportion, and then we look at connections between variables, then we look at how one group compares to another. And what this is leading up to is the procedure I want to show you right now, linear regression, which is one of the most flexible, and powerful, and common techniques for analyzing data. Because what it lets you do is use many variables of almost any kind to predict a score on a single quantitative variable. And in fact, there are versions that lets you do it for a single binary outcome, that's logistic regression, in which we'll look at in another video, or an ordinal variable, or several different categories. There are a lot of things that can be done with regression and its variations. We're going to take a look at a pretty simple version, and for this, I'm going to be using an adaptation of the demo.save dataset from SPSS. Now, I have saved this one as…

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