Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...
The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 72, No. 1 (Jan., 2010), pp. 3-25 (23 pages) Partial least squares regression has been an alternative to ordinary ...
John A. Jacquez, Frances J. Mather and Charles R. Crawford The theory of simple linear regression is extended to the case of non-uniform error variances for the ...
An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method ...