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Intro Topics: A Regression Primer

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Welcome to another stupidly-long, but hopefully informative instructional on introductory statistical concepts. Today we tackle regression analysis.  Use the menu links below to jump around if you need/want to get a quick bit of info on any topic:

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1) Background: Correlation analysis [conceptually] explained
2) Correlation analysis and OLS linear regression
3) From guesses to predictions: The logic of using linear regression
— a) Building the equation
— b) Interpreting regression
— c) What is OLS?
4) Advanced Applications
5) Conclusion & Further reading

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Basics: Highway to the Danger Zone: Why median-splitting your continuous data can ruin your results.

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Not too long ago, I wrote an article here about advanced procedures for examining interactions in multiple regression. As I described some of the challenges researchers commonly face in trying to examine differences between people in a data set, I argued that when it comes to data analysis, splitting a continuous variable into a dichotomy (i.e. two categories) is kind of a dumb idea (MacCallum et al, 2002). Continue reading →

Advanced topics: Plotting Better Interactions using the Johnson-Neyman Technique in Mplus

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Today’s tutorial involves picking up a useful new weapon for your data analytic arsenal; one that I’ve used quite a bit over the past year of my graduate training. We’re going to look at a novel way of estimating & graphing interactions in the context of multiple regression (one that even extends to structural equation models), using my increasingly go-to program – Mplus. Note that the tips below have been tested in Mplus versions 6 and 7 effectively. Using these procedures in any earlier version is a total crap shoot — meaning I haven’t verified whether or not they work in version 5 or older — so bear that in mind.

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