{"id":117,"date":"2006-03-27T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.18.176.78\/dsn\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:14:13","slug":"ever-wonder-how-regression-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Ever wonder how regression works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VISUAL LEAST SQUARES<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/regression.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Visual Least Squares\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/multiple_regression.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple Regression\" id=\"image139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on the image to interact with the tool)<\/p>\n<p>Back when the DSN editor was a student at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\">Chicago<\/a>, he learned Statistics and History of Statistics from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/stigler.html\">Steve Stigler<\/a>, who proposed a visual demonstration of least squares regression. Together they came out with a now-obsolete Mac version. Today, DSN is proud to announce a version that will run on any browser that does Flash.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration should be self-explanatory to anyone who understands simple regression, and if not, might suffice as a tutor. And if not, there is always the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linear_regression\">linear regression<\/a> article in Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAQ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can I use this to teach my class?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, and please let us know how it goes! A benefit of the web-based version is that it can be reached from any place with a Web connection. This program is made available through a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\/\">Creative Commons License<\/a> (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) which means that you are welcome to use it for non-commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you make a convenient URL for this tool?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/regression.html\">http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/regression.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISUAL LEAST SQUARES (Click on the image to interact with the tool) Back when the DSN editor was a student at Chicago, he learned Statistics and History of Statistics from Steve Stigler, who proposed a visual demonstration of least squares regression. Together they came out with a now-obsolete Mac version. Today, DSN is proud to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7229,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/7229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}