Chapter 10. Simple Linear Regression
10.1 Basics of Regression Analysis
10.2 Developing a Simple Linear Regression Model
10.4 Inferences About the Slope
10.5 Common Mistakes Using Regression Analysis
Regression methods are inferential methods that allow you to use the values of one variable to predict the values of another variable. For example, managers of a growing chain of retail stores might wonder if larger-sized stores generate greater sales, farmers might want to predict the weight of a pumpkin based on its circumference, and baseball fans might want to predict the number of games a team wins in a season based on the number of runs the team scores.
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