[R] Regression using R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.04.2010 08:24, Dieter Menne wrote:
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> Samuel Bravo wrote:
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>> I'm working on a very large project in which we do many calculations which
>> include many types of regression such as, Liner, Quadratic, Cubic,
>> Exponential, Sinusoidal, and Logarithmic.
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> Students are often looking at the wrong place. It's not intuitive that
> quadratic, cubic can be found under "lm", because these are often termed
> "non-linear" in basic university courses.

Dieter,

unfortunately, you are so right. And that's wrong with those basic 
university courses: We need to teach people that trying to make 
appropriate transformations to make things linear is the way to go.

Best,
Uwe



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