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## What’s New in 6.2: Stepwise Regression for Big Data

March 26, 2013
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by Thomas Dinsmore This is the third in a series of posts highlighting new features in Revolution R Enterprise Release 6.2, which is scheduled for General Availability April 22. This week's post features our new Stepwise Regression capability. The Stepwise process starts with a specified model and then sequentially adds into or removes from the model the variable that...

## Estimating the Decay Rate and the Half-Life of DDT in Trout – Applying Simple Linear Regression with Logarithmic Transformation

This blog post uses a function and a script written in R that were displayed in an earlier blog post. Introduction This is the second of a series of blog posts about simple linear regression; the first was written recently on some conceptual nuances and subtleties about this model.  In this blog post, I will use

## My Own R Function and Script for Simple Linear Regression – An Illustration with Exponential Decay of DDT in Trout

Here is the function that I wrote for doing simple linear regression, as alluded to in my blog post about simple linear regression on log-transformed data on the decay of DDT concentration in trout in Lake Michigan.  My goal was to replicate the 4 columns of the output from applying summary() to the output of lm().

## Using Norms to Understand Linear Regression

March 22, 2013
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Introduction In my last post, I described how we can derive modes, medians and means as three natural solutions to the problem of summarizing a list of numbers, \((x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n)\), using a single number, \(s\). In particular, we measured the quality of different potential summaries in three different ways, which led us to

## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM (part 4) – Exact and Conditional Logistic Regressions

March 22, 2013
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Next topic on logistic regression: the exact and the conditional logistic regressions. Exact logistic regression When the dataset is very small or severely unbalanced, maximum likelihood estimates of coefficients may be biased. An alternative is to use exact logistic regression, available in R with the elrm package. Its syntax is based on an events/trials formulation.

## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Evaluating Logistic Regression Models (part 3)

March 19, 2013
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$Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Evaluating Logistic Regression Models (part 3)$

Third part on logistic regression (first here, second here). Two steps in assessing the fit of the model: first is to determine if the model fits using summary measures of goodness of fit or by assessing the predictive ability of the model; second is to deterime if there’s any observations that do not fit the

## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression (part 2)

March 17, 2013
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$Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression (part 2)$

Second part on logistic regression (first one here). We used in the previous post a likelihood ratio test to compare a full and null model. The same can be done to compare a full and nested model to test the contribution of any subset of parameters: Interpretation of coefficients Note: Dohoo do not report the

## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression

March 14, 2013
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$Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: GLM – Logistic Regression$

We continue to explore the book Veterinary Epidemiologic Research and today we’ll have a look at generalized linear models (GLM), specifically the logistic regression (chapter 16). In veterinary epidemiology, often the outcome is dichotomous (yes/no), representing the presence or absence of disease or mortality. We code 1 for the presence of the outcome and 0

## Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: Linear Regression Part 3 – Box-Cox and Matrix Representation

March 11, 2013
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$Veterinary Epidemiologic Research: Linear Regression Part 3 – Box-Cox and Matrix Representation$

In the previous post, I forgot to show an example of Box-Cox transformation when there’s a lack of normality. The Box-Cox procedure computes values of which best “normalises” the errors. value Transformed value of Y 2 1 0.5 0 -0.5 -1 -2 For example: The plot indicates a log transformation. Matrix Representation We can use