This is the web site for Portable Document Format (pdf) files for the course Regression and Multivariate Data Analysis (STAT-GB.2301 / STAT-UB.0017), taught by Jeffrey Simonoff.

  • Course syllabus
  • Using the Casebook and Minitab
  • A general list of Minitab commands
  • Regression - the basics
  • Purchasing power parity - is it true?
  • Homework 1
  • Answers to homework 1
  • Homework 2
  • Multiple regression
  • Getting what you pay for: dinner prices in Manhattan
  • Mortgage rates
  • Purchasing power parity, revisited
  • Regression diagnostics
  • Transformations in regression
  • Predicting total movie grosses after one week
  • Modeling Lowe's sales
  • Estimating a demand function
  • Homework 3
  • Ordinary least squares estimation and time series data
  • Critical values for the Durbin-Watson statistic
  • Nursing behaviors of beluga calves (Delphinapterus leucas) born in captivity (Note: access only from NYU locations or through NYU proxy)
  • Estimating a demand function - it's about time
  • Eruptions of the Old Faithful Geyser
  • Homework 4
  • One-way ANOVA
  • Assessing the credit risk of fixed income securities
  • Two-way ANOVA
  • Modeling television viewership
  • Three-way ANOVA
  • Analysis of covariance
  • CAPM: Do you want fries with that?
  • Homework 5
  • Logistic regression - modeling the probability of success
  • The flight of the space shuttle Challenger
  • Statistical analysis in discrimination lawsuits
  • News flash! Smoking makes you live longer!
  • Predicting bankruptcy in the telecommunications industry
  • The sinking of the Titanic
  • Homework 6
  • What makes a top university top?
  • Discriminant analysis
  • Another look at bankruptcy
  • Another look at universities
  • Factor analysis
  • The Simonoff College Rating System [(c) 2002]


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