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  2. Francis Galton - Wikipedia

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    Galton invented the use of the regression line [59] and for the choice of r (for reversion or regression) to represent the correlation coefficient. [ 47 ] In the 1870s and 1880s he was a pioneer in the use of normal theory to fit histograms and ogives to actual tabulated data, much of which he collected himself: for instance large samples of ...

  3. Linear regression - Wikipedia

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    In Dempster–Shafer theory, or a linear belief function in particular, a linear regression model may be represented as a partially swept matrix, which can be combined with similar matrices representing observations and other assumed normal distributions and state equations. The combination of swept or unswept matrices provides an alternative ...

  4. Regression analysis - Wikipedia

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    In linear regression, the model specification is that the dependent variable, is a linear combination of the parameters (but need not be linear in the independent variables). For example, in simple linear regression for modeling n {\displaystyle n} data points there is one independent variable: x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} , and two parameters, β ...

  5. Econometrics - Wikipedia

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    A basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. [8] Econometric theory uses statistical theory and mathematical statistics to evaluate and develop econometric methods. [9] [10] Econometricians try to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties including unbiasedness, efficiency, and consistency.

  6. Karl Pearson - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, with Weldon and Galton, he founded the journal Biometrika whose object was the development of statistical theory. [39] He edited this journal until his death. Among those who assisted Pearson in his research were a number of female mathematicians who included Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, Frances Cave-Browne-Cave, and Alice Lee.

  7. Ordinary least squares - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, ordinary least squares (OLS) is a type of linear least squares method for choosing the unknown parameters in a linear regression model (with fixed level-one [clarification needed] effects of a linear function of a set of explanatory variables) by the principle of least squares: minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed dependent variable (values ...

  8. Regression toward the mean - Wikipedia

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    Galton's experimental setup "Standard eugenics scheme of descent" – early application of Galton's insight [1]. In statistics, regression toward the mean (also called regression to the mean, reversion to the mean, and reversion to mediocrity) is the phenomenon where if one sample of a random variable is extreme, the next sampling of the same random variable is likely to be closer to its mean.

  9. Linear model - Wikipedia

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    An example of a linear time series model is an autoregressive moving average model.Here the model for values {} in a time series can be written in the form = + + = + =. where again the quantities are random variables representing innovations which are new random effects that appear at a certain time but also affect values of at later times.