Day 7 Linear Regression
Linear Regression Can we predict total charges from length of stay? regress totchg los regress rtotchg loglos Which model? Assumption: Residuals are normally distributed with constant variance
Saving Residuals and Fitted Values Plotting fitted line predict fity graph fity rtotchg loglos, s(io) c(l.) ylab xlab Making a residual plot predict resid, res graph resid loglos, xlab ylab yline(0)
Multiple Linear Regression Should we adjust for age? complications? mortality? gender? regress rtotchg loglos age mortality sept reint R-squared
Pros and Cons of Transform Violation of linearity assumption versus Ease of interpretation