Your professor should immediately recognize that the quoted code is standard 
regression input/output and that the Urkund results in this case are without 
merit.


> On Sep 22, 2015, at 7:27 AM, BARRETT, Oliver <oliver.barr...@skema.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear 'R' community support,
> 
> 
> I am a student at Skema business school and I have recently submitted my MSc 
> thesis/dissertation. This has been passed on to an external plagiarism 
> service provider, Urkund, who have scanned my document and returned a 
> plagiarism report to my professor having detected 32% plagiarism.
> 
> 
> I have contacted Urkund regarding this issue having committed no such 
> plagiarism and they have told me that all the plagiarism detected in my 
> document comes from the last 25% which consists only of 'R' regressions like 
> the one I have pasted below:
> 
> lm(formula = Prague50 ~ Fed + Fed.t.1. + Fed.t.2. + Fed.t.3. +
>    Fed.t.4., data = OLS_CAR, x = TRUE)
> 
> Residuals:
>      Min        1Q    Median        3Q       Max
> -0.154587 -0.015961  0.001429  0.017196  0.110907
> 
> Coefficients:
>             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
> (Intercept) -0.001630   0.001763  -0.925   0.3559
> Fed         -0.121595   0.165359  -0.735   0.4627
> Fed.t.1.     0.344014   0.140979   2.440   0.0153 *
> Fed.t.2.     0.026529   0.143648   0.185   0.8536
> Fed.t.3.     0.622357   0.142021   4.382 1.62e-05 ***
> Fed.t.4.     0.291985   0.158914   1.837   0.0671 .
> ---
> Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
> 
> Residual standard error: 0.0293 on 304 degrees of freedom
>  (20 observations deleted due to missingness)
> Multiple R-squared:  0.08629,  Adjusted R-squared:  0.07126
> F-statistic: 5.742 on 5 and 304 DF,  p-value: 4.422e-05
> 
> I have produced all of these regressions myself and pasted them directly from 
> the 'R' software package. My regression methodology is entirely my own along 
> with the sourcing and preperation of the data used to produce these 
> statistics.
> 
> I would be very grateful if you could provide my with some clarity as to why 
> this output from 'R' is reading as plagiarism.
> 
> I would like to thank you in advance,
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Oliver Barrett
> (+44) 7341 834 217
> 
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> 
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