{"id":21673,"date":"2017-06-03T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21673"},"modified":"2017-06-03T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T14:23:58","slug":"statistics-what-is-multiple-linear-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-what-is-multiple-linear-regression\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics:  what is multiple linear regression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring statistics, regression is an important topic.  The tutor defines multiple linear regression.<\/h1>\n<p>Simple linear regression models the dependent variable by a linear connection to the independent:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">y = a + bx<\/p>\n<p>Multiple linear regression models the dependent variable by a linear connection across several independent variables:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">y = a + b<sub>1<\/sub>x<sub>1<\/sub> + b<sub>2<\/sub>x<sub>2<\/sub> + b<sub>3<\/sub>x<sub>3<\/sub> + &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Harnett, Donald L. and James L. Murphy.  <i>Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics<\/i>.  Don Mills: Addison-Wesley, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring statistics, regression is an important topic. The tutor defines multiple linear regression. Simple linear regression models the dependent variable by a linear connection to the independent: y = a + bx Multiple linear regression models the dependent variable by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/statistics-what-is-multiple-linear-regression\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statistics:  what is multiple linear regression?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2347],"class_list":["post-21673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","tag-what-is-multiple-linear-regression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}