Paul Lynch wrote: > > I don't think it makes sense to compare models with > and without an intercept term. (Also, I don't know what the point of > using a model without an intercept term would be, but that is > probably just my ignorance.) > Suppose that you are 100% sure that the intercept term is zero, or so insignifantly small as not to matter. For example, if you are measuring the density of some material, and you determine a lot of pairs (mass, volume), you know that mass = density * volume, with intercept zero.
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