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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. Coefficient of determination - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary least squares regression of Okun's law.Since the regression line does not miss any of the points by very much, the R 2 of the regression is relatively high.. In statistics, the coefficient of determination, denoted R 2 or r 2 and pronounced "R squared", is the proportion of the variation in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).

  6. 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.

  7. Founders of statistics - Wikipedia

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    Invented optimal design for experiments on gravity, in which he "corrected the means". He used correlation, smoothing, and improved the treatment of outliers. Introduced terms "confidence" and "likelihood" (before Neyman and Fisher). While largely a frequentist, Peirce's possible world semantics introduced the "propensity" theory of

  8. Karl Pearson - Wikipedia

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    The correlation coefficient (first developed by Auguste Bravais [40] [41] and Francis Galton) was defined as a product-moment, and its relationship with linear regression was studied. [42] Method of moments. Pearson introduced moments, a concept borrowed from physics, as descriptive statistics and for the fitting of distributions to samples.

  9. Linear least squares - Wikipedia

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    Linear least squares (LLS) is the least squares approximation of linear functions to data. It is a set of formulations for solving statistical problems involved in linear regression, including variants for ordinary (unweighted), weighted, and generalized (correlated) residuals.