All 9 Uses
regression analysis
in
Freakonomics
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- By subjecting it to the economist's favorite trick: regression analysis.†
p. 163.3 *
- No, regression analysis is not some forgotten form of psychiatric treatment.†
p. 163.3
- Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data.†
p. 163.6
- In the case of the ECLS data, it might help to think of regression analysis as performing the following task: converting each of those twenty thousand schoolchildren into a sort of circuit board with an identical number of switches.†
p. 164.1
- Regression analysis can't quite answer that question, but it can answer a subtly different one: does a child with a lot of books in his home tend to do better than a child with no books?†
p. 164.7
- A regression analysis can demonstrate correlation, but it doesn't prove cause.†
p. 164.9
- It should be said that regression analysis is more art than science.†
p. 165.5
- Knowing what you now know about regression analysis, conventional wisdom, and the art of parenting, consider the following list of sixteen factors.†
p. 168.5
- Using regression analysis to control for other factors that might influence life trajectories, it was then possible to measure the impact of a single factor—in this case, a woman's first name—on her educational, income, and health outcomes.†
p. 191.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(regression analysis) statistics: a method for determining the association between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)