Interpreting and Using Regression

✍ Scribed by Christopher H. Achen

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 89
• Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, No. 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Interpreting and Using Regression sets out the actual procedures researchers employ, places them in the framework of statistical theory, and shows how good research takes account both of statistical theory and real world demands. Achen builds a working philosophy of regression that goes well beyond the abstract, unrealistic treatment given in previous texts.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 5
Series Editor’s Introduction......Page 6
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 8
2. ELEMENTARY REGRESSION THEORY ANDSOCIAL SCIENCE PRACTICE......Page 13
3. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF REGRESSION ESTIMATES......Page 31
Consistency of Regression Coefficients......Page 36
4. SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS OFREGRESSION COEFFICIENTS......Page 38
Interpretation of Confidence Intervals......Page 42
Comparing Substantive and Statistical Significance......Page 47
5. CHOOSING A SPECIFICATION......Page 52
Functional Forms......Page 57
Variable Selection and R2......Page 59
Other Measures of Goodness of Fit......Page 62
6. THE IMPORTANCE OF A VARIABLE......Page 69
Theoretical Importance......Page 70
Level Importance......Page 72
Dispersion Importance......Page 74
7. CONCLUSION......Page 78
APPENDIX: PROOF OF THE CONSISTENCYRESULT FOR REGRESSION......Page 81
NOTES......Page 83
REFERENCES......Page 85
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