Making individual predictions If we know the value of several explanatory variables for an individual, but do not know the value of that individual’s dependent variable, we can use the prediction ...

Learn how to graph linear regression in Excel. Use these steps to analyze the linear relationship between an independent and a dependent variable.

Variables At the heart of a regression model is the relationship between two different variables, called the dependent and independent variables.

Applied economists have long struggled with the question of how to accommodate binary endogenous regressors in models with binary and nonnegative outcomes. I argue here that much of the difficulty ...

In recent columns we showed how linear regression can be used to predict a continuous dependent variable given other independent variables 1,2. When the dependent variable is categorical, a common ...