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Data Analysis with R, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393720
Pages 570 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
RefresheR The Shape of Data Describing Relationships Probability Using Data To Reason About The World Testing Hypotheses Bayesian Methods The Bootstrap Predicting Continuous Variables Predicting Categorical Variables Predicting Changes with Time Sources of Data Dealing with Missing Data Dealing with Messy Data Dealing with Large Data Working with Popular R Packages Reproducibility and Best Practices Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Simple linear regression


Onto a substantially less trivial example; let's say No Scone Unturned has been keeping careful records of how many raisins (in grams) they have been using for their famous oatmeal raisin cookies. They want to construct a linear model describing the relationship between the area of a cookie (in centimeters squared) and how many raisins they use, on average.

In particular, they want to use linear regression to predict how many grams of raisins they will need for a 1-meter long oatmeal raisin cookie. Predicting a continuous variable (grams of raisins) from other variables sounds like a job for regression! In particular, when we use just a single predictor variable (the area of the cookies), the technique is called simple linear regression.

The left panel of Figure 9.2 illustrates the relationship between the area of cookies and the amount of raisins it used. It also shows the best-fit regression line:

Figure 9.2: A scatterplot of areas and grams of raisins in No Scone...

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