September 2007
Beginner
628 pages
12h 29m
English
Several techniques, of increasing complexity, have been covered in this book. From fitting single means, to fitting multiple means, to fitting situations where the regressor is a continuous function, specific techniques have been demonstrated to address a wide variety of statistical situations. This chapter introduces a new approach involving general linear models, which will encompass all the models covered so far and extend to many more situations. They are all unified under the technique of least squares, fitting parameters to minimize the sum of squared residuals.
The techniques can be generalized even further to cover categorical response models, and other more specialized applications.
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