Multiple Linear Regression

September 14, 2009

By rtutor.chiyau

(This article was first published on R Tutorial, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

$fractal-04h$ A multiple linear regression (MLR) model that describes a dependent variable y by independent variables x₁, x₂, ..., x_p (p > 1) is expressed by the equation as follows, where the numbers α and β_k (k = 1, 2, ..., p) are the parameters, and ϵ is the error term.

y = α+ ∑ β x + ϵ k k k

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