Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A line of best fit is a form of regression analysis that shows the relationship ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment ...

Logistic regression is a powerful statistical method that is used to model the probability that a set of explanatory (independent or predictor) variables predict data in an outcome (dependent or ...

Linear regression is a powerful and long-established statistical tool that is commonly used across applied sciences, economics and many other fields. Linear regression considers the relationship ...

Residual plots can be used to validate assumptions about the regression model. Figure 1: Residual plots are helpful in assessments of nonlinear trends and heteroscedasticity. A formal test of lack of ...

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The effect on estimation of regression coefficients in linear location-scale models is investigated when the error distribution is misspecified. It is shown that the ...