Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by ...

This is the seventh in a series of lecture notes which, if tied together into a textbook, might be entitled “Practical Regression.” The purpose of the notes is to supplement the theoretical content of ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Linear regression is a type ...

In the early 1970s, statisticians had difficulty in analysing data where the random variation of the errors did not come from the bell-shaped normal distribution. Besides normality, these traditional ...