Chapter 10: Building, Training, and Validating a Multiple Regression Model

In this chapter, we are going to apply our knowledge of the statistical tests of relationship confidence to build a predictive model.

Because we are now working with a multivariable regression model, we have to explore the most influential variables to build the best prediction case.

We will work with a case with several values, and we will use our judgment and statistical tests to ascertain which two variables have more influence over the prediction that we are looking for.

We have to apply our judgment because it could be the case that the f-statistics and p-value accept the null hypothesis that the slope is equal to zero for a variable. However, the relationship is ...

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