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reading Introduction This guide assumes that you have at least a little familiarity with the concepts of linear multiple regression, and are capable of performing a regression in some software package such as Stata, SPSS or Excel. You may wish to read our companion page Introduction to Regression first. For assistance in performing regression in particular software packages, there are some t statistic regression resources at UCLA Statistical Computing Portal. Brief review of regression Remember that regression analysis is used to produce an equation that will predict a dependent variable using one or more independent variables. This equation has the form Y = b1X1 + b2X2 + ... + A where Y is the dependent variable you are trying to predict, X1, X2 and so on are the independent variables you are using to predict it, b1, b2 and so on are the coefficients or multipliers that describe the size of the effect the independent variables are having on your dependent variable Y, and A is the value Y is predicted to have when all the independent variables are equal to zero. In the Stata regression shown below, the prediction equation is price = -294.1955 (mpg) + 1767.292 (foreign) + 11905.42 - telling you that price is predicted to increase 1767.292 when the foreign variable goes up by one, decrease by 294.1955 when mpg goes up by one, and is predicted to be 11905.42 when both mpg and foreign are zero. Coming up with a prediction e
1: descriptive analysis · Beer sales vs. price, part 2: fitting a simple model · Beer sales vs. price, part 3: transformations how to interpret regression results in excel of variables · Beer sales vs. price, part 4: additional predictors how to interpret regression results in spss · NC natural gas consumption vs. temperature What to look for in regression output What's a regression coefficient interpretation spss good value for R-squared? What's the bottom line? How to compare models Testing the assumptions of linear regression Additional notes on regression analysis Stepwise and all-possible-regressions Excel http://dss.princeton.edu/online_help/analysis/interpreting_regression.htm file with simple regression formulas Excel file with regression formulas in matrix form If you are a PC Excel user, you must check this out: RegressIt: free Excel add-in for linear regression and multivariate data analysis What to look for in regression model output Standard error of the regression and other measures http://people.duke.edu/~rnau/411regou.htm of error size Adjusted R-squared (not the bottom line!) Significance of the estimated coefficients Values of the estimated coefficients Plots of forecasts and residuals (important!) Out-of-sample validation For a sample of output that illustrates the various topics discussed here, see the "Regression Example, part 2" page. (i) Standard error of the regression (root-mean-squared error adjusted for degrees of freedom): Does the current regression model yield smaller errors, on average, than the best model previously fitted, and is the improvement significant in practical terms? In regression modeling, the best single error statistic to look at is the standard error of the regression, which is the estimated standard deviation of the unexplainable variations in the dependent variable. (It is approximately the standard deviation of the errors, apart from the degrees-of-freedom adjustment.) This what your software is trying to minimize when estimating coefficients, and it is a sufficient statistic for describing properties of the errors if the model's assumptions are all
to predict muscle strength. Model Summary(b) R R Square Adjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate .872(a) .760 .756 19.0481 a Predictors: (Constant), LBM http://www.jerrydallal.com/lhsp/slrout.htm b Dependent Variable: STRENGTH ANOVA Source Sum of Squares df Mean Square F Sig. Regression 68788.829 1 68788.829 189.590 .000 Residual 21769.768 60 362.829 Total 90558.597 61 Coefficients Variable Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized Coefficients t Sig. 95% Confidence Interval for B B Std. Error Beta Lower Bound Upper Bound (Constant) -13.971 10.314 -1.355 .181 -34.602 6.660 LBM 3.016 .219 .872 13.769 .000 standard error 2.577 3.454 Table of Coefficients The column labeled Variable should be self-explanatory. It contains the names of the items in the equation and labels each row of output. The Unstandardized coefficients (B) are the regression coefficients. The regression equation is STRENGTH = -13.971 + 3.016 LBM The predicted muscle strength of someone with 40 kg of lean body mass is -13.971 + 3.016 coefficient divided by (40) = 106.669 For cross-sectional data like these, the regression coefficient for the predictor is the difference in response per unit difference in the predictor. For longitudinal data, the regression coefficient is the change in response per unit change in the predictor. Here, strength differs 3.016 units for every unit difference in lean body mass. The distinction between cross-sectional and longitudinal data is still important. These strength data are cross-sectional so differences in LBM and strength refer to differences between people. If we wanted to describe how an individual's muscle strength changes with lean body mass, we would have to measure strength and lean body mass as they change within people. The Standard Errors are the standard errors of the regression coefficients. They can be used for hypothesis testing and constructing confidence intervals. For example, the standard error of the STRENGTH coefficient is 0.219. A 95% confidence interval for the regression coefficient for STRENGTH is constructed as (3.016 k 0.219), where k is the appropriate percentile of the t distribution with degrees of freedom equal to the Error DF from the ANOVA table. Here, the degre