Regression Diagnostic Series: Qualitative applications in the social sciences /
John Fox
- New Delhi, A sage University Paper, 1991.
- 92 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- QUANTITATIVE APPLICATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES .
Table of Contents
I. Introduction 2. Linear least-squares regression The regression model Least-squares estimation Statistical inference for regression coefficients The general linear model
3. Collinearity Collinearity and variation inflation Coping with Collinearity: No quick fix
4. Outfying and Influential data Measuring leverage: hat-values Detecting outliers: studentized residuals Measuring influence: Cook's distance and other diagnostics Numerical cutoffs for diagnostics statistics subsets of observation: partial-regression Should unusual data be discarded
5. Non-distributed errors Normal quintile-comparison plot of residuals Histograms of residuals Correcting asymmetry by transformation
7. Nonlinearity Residual and partial-residual plots Transformations for linearity
8 Discrete data Testing for nonlinearity Testing for nonconstant error variance
9. Maximum-likelihood methods, score tests, and constructed variables Box-cox transformation of y Box-Tidwell transformation of the xs Nonconstant error variance revised
10. Recommendations Computing diagnostics Further reading