Regressions in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg91932] Regressions in Mathematica
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:54:58 -0400 (EDT)
Hello everyone,
I'm having trouble understanding the syntax of the Regress command.
If data is an nx2 matrix where the first column is the explanatory
variable and the second is the dependent variable, then either
Regress[data, {1, x}, x]
or
Regress[data, x, x]
performs a standard regression of the second column on the first with
a constant thrown in. But how do I write the command for the case of
more than one explanatory variable? Say that my data matrix is now
nx3, so that the first two columns are the explanatory variables and
the last is the dependent variable.
Regress[data, {x,x}, x] or Regress[data, {1, x,x}, x] gives the error
message "Number of coordinates (2) is not equal to the number of
variables (1)". I'm not sure how I'm supposed to identify each
explanatory variable.
Regards,
Gregory