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Use the Correlation Coefficient to Summarize Regression Performance?
Author(s) -
Gorroochurn Prakash
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00455.x
Subject(s) - statistics , correlation coefficient , correlation , regression analysis , regression , linear regression , path coefficient , regression dilution , quality (philosophy) , mathematics , standardized coefficient , coefficient of determination , econometrics , polynomial regression , geometry , philosophy , epistemology
Summary The correlation coefficient is commonly used to indicate the quality of fit in regression. This practice is questionable.