The fifth edition now includes applications for engineering, sociology, psychology, etc., as well as traditional business applications. The authors use material from news articles, magazines, professional journals, and actual consulting problems to illustrate real business problems and how to solve them by using the tools of regression analysis. Model building is considered fundamental to any regression analysis. Another major objective of the text is to develop skill in applying regression analysis to real-life situations. Numerous exercises based on data and problems extracted from news articles, magazines, and journals are located at the ends of key sections and at the ends of chapters.
Data sets are also available on disk.
The printouts of the respective packages are presented and discussed throughout the text. Introduction to Regression Analysis. Simple Linear Regression. Some Regression Pitfalls. Time Series Modeling and Forecasting.