Continuous Dependent Variable

A Continuous Dependent Variable is a dependent variable that is a continuous random variable.

• AKA: Continuous Target, Regressand.
• Context:
  • It can be specified in a Statistical Model that is based on a Statistical Experiment.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Categorical Dependent Variable.
  • a Predictor Variable.
• See: Generalized Linear Models.

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References

1998

• (Johnson & Wichern, 1998) ⇒ Richard A. Johnson, and Dean W. Wichern. (1998). “Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, 4th ed." Prentice hall, 1992. ISBN:013834194X
  • QUOTE: Regression analysis is the statistical methodology for predicting values of one or more response (dependent) variables from a collection of predictor (independent) variable values. It can also be used for assessing the effects of the predictor variables on the responses. Unfortunately, the name regression culled from the title of the first paper on the subject by F. Galton [13], in no way reflects either the importance or breath of application of this methodology. … Let [math]\displaystyle{ z_1, z_2, ..., z_r }[/math] be [math]\displaystyle{ r }[/math] predictor variables through to be related to a response variable [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] …

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