Applied Regression Analysis and Other Multivariable Methods (Duxbury Applied) - Hardcover

This bestseller will help you learn regression-analysis methods that you can apply to real-life problems. It highlights the role of the computer in contemporary statistics with numerous printouts and exercises that you can solve using the computer. The authors continue to emphasize model development, the intuitive logic and assumptions that underlie the techniques covered, the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the techniques, and valid interpretations of those techniques.

This bestseller will help you learn regression-analysis methods that you can apply to real-life problems. It highlights the role of the computer in contemporary statistics with numerous printouts and exercises that you can solve using the computer. The authors continue to emphasize model development, the intuitive logic and assumptions that underlie the techniques covered, the purposes, advantages, and disadvantages of the techniques, and valid interpretations of those techniques. Benefits: * NEW! New chapters on Polytomous and Ordinal Logistic Regression (Chapter 23) and Sample Size Determination (Chapter 27). * NEW! Completely revised chapters on maximum likelihood (ML) estimation (Chapter 21), and analysis of correlated data (Chapter 25, 26). * NEW! Updated content, with new exercises added to several chapters. * Numerous examples and exercises illustrate applications to real studies in a wide variety of disciplines. * Several advanced topics are presented in a unique, nonmathematical manner. * The quantity of computer results throughout the text has been greatly expanded. Computer output has been used to replace material that unnecessarily emphasized numerical calculations. * The complete set of data for most exercises is provided, along with related computer results. This allows the instructor to assign computer work based on available packaged programs.