STAR Notes
Simulation, Theory, and Application of Regression
Introduction
About This Course
This book contains the course notes for the Spring 2024 offering of ST362 Regression Analysis, based on the following sources:
- Applied Regression Analysis, 3rd edition, by Draper and Smith
- A PDF of this textbook is available through the WLU library
- Introduction to Linear Regression Anaysis, 2nd edition, by Montgomery and Peck
- This textbook is excellent but expensive, and I am striving to use free and OER materials.
- The online course notes from Stat 501 at Penn State.
About This Book
This book is a living document. Expect changes throughout each semester that I teach!
Some features:
- The GitHub logo takes you to the repo for this book. Feel free to fork and adapt as you please (under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license).
- The little toggle next to the logo puts this into night mode. Try it out!
- Each lecture had a “Jam”, where I played music at the start of class that related to a particular slide. When that slide showed up, a student would say “That’s my Jam!” and I would throw chocolate at them.
- The jams are still there, and you may wish to listen to them while reading!
This book is very much a work in progress. There are missing sections and typos. I am working on adding speaker notes to the slides, which will show up as text in this book.
I am also working on a major re-write of the first few chapters to walk through the concepts in a better order. In particular, I would like to stay in simple linear regression for a lot longer, demonstrating correlation, Cook’s distance, correlation between \(\hat\beta_0\) and \(\hat\beta_1\), etc., then moving into binary and categorical predictors as a first step into multiple regression, polynomial as a second step, then a lecture demonstrating that all of these concepts generalize into multiple dimensions.
This is a quarto book based on my lecture slides. The “Lectures” are quarto files that were rendered into beamer PDF slides. I have included the configs to render the slides. To re-create my slides, you can use the code:
quarto render L01-Introduction.qmdAlternatively, you can hit Cmd-Shift-K (Ctrl-Shift-K on Linux and other operating systems) inside VSCode or Rstudio to render the slides into a presentation.
To render the whole book (as html), use:
quarto render --profile bookThe --profile argument tells Quarto to use the configuration in the file _quarto-slides.yml. I have added speaker notes in a notes environment, which means that the notes will appear in the book but not the pdf slides.
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