"Donald Burrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 11 Jun 2003, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim wrote: > > It is difficult to know how to respond without knowing why you have > bothered to compile this essay. > Are you preparing expository text intended as an introduction to > regression analysis for persons who have not encountered it before? > If so, this is really overkill, and will only distract students from > trying to solve problems using regression analysis. > Are you trying to summarize what you think YOU have learned about > regression analysis, from the references you cite at the end of your > post? If so, it rather looks as though you may not have understood what > some of those authors were trying to communicate; and are construing > other points far too rigidly. > > Editing your magnum opus would require a fair investment of time and > energy on any of our parts (as evidenced in the several excellent > responses you have already received), and one would really like to > suppose that the effort was, in some sense, worth while and, in some > sense, unlikely to be wasted effort. > > > I am working on some regression project > > What kind of project? How is your list of assumptions related to it? > > > and would love to know that if > [I take it that you mean "whether"] > > there are any other assumptions of Regression analysis other than > > the following unlucky 13 assumptions. > > Also please let me know if any of these are inappropriate as > > any assumption in general in regression. > As some respondents have attempted to make clear, probably most of > them are. But it may depend on what your purpose(s) is(are). > > > And, is it possible to provide example (at least hypothetical or by > > using any software packages) to each of these specific assumptions? > Not clear what you're asking. Do you want data for which a given > assumption is explictly met, or explicitly violated? Or, do you want to > know what software packages deal, explicitlyor otherwise, with a given > assumption? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- (Applause) Good points!!! Galton wasn't aware of these 13 points when he invented linear regression!!!! Joel Ward freely uses regression without any inhibitions.
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