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Techniques for analyzing the relationship between one (or more) "dependent" variables and "independent" variables.

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Choosing to keep or bin continuous variables for communicating regression results

I am using logistic regression in a work setting (e.g. subscription conversion in a technology product). … The independent variables of this regression include both continuous and categorical variables. …
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For Logistic Regression, should I avoid changing discrete independent variable to binary ind... [closed]

I am running multiple logistic regression to understand feature importance. … I wouldn't want my coefficient from the regression to just be noise, which I anticipate the non-bucketed distribution would be susceptible to. Maybe I am misunderstand logistic regression though. …
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Am I interpreting logistic regression coefficient of categorical variable correctly as a pro...

Since this is easy to get wrong, I wanted to spot check my line of thinking: I have a logistic regression $Y = \beta_0 + \beta_1 X$, where $Y$ is a binary response and $X$ is a categorical variable with … EDIT: Increases in probability relative to the level of the categorical variable left out in the regression, so to speak. …
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Intuitively, why is it possible to have a linear regression with significant predictors that...

Just wondering -- I just ran a regression where my $R^{2}$ value was 0.046 but I have four independent variables with p-values below 0.05. …
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Does a positive interaction term imply correlation between its constituent variables?

Let's say I'm running a linear regression that has the form $y = \beta_0 + \beta_1A+\beta_2B+\beta_3AB +\epsilon$. …
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Using gbm to eliminate variables before glm

I have a classification problem I am attempting to model using logistic regression (via the glm package in R): cols <- c("x", "z", "a", "b", "c") formula = paste0("x ~ ", paste(cols, collapse = "+") … How advisable is it to model this relationship using gbm, see the relative inference strength of each variable, and then remove seemingly meaningless variables before glm regression? …
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