Direction dependence in a regression line

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2000, Pages 1957-1972

  Dodge, Yadolah ^a   Rousson, Valentin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Direction dependence regression; Least squares; Linear regression; Response variable; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141453920     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920008832589     Document Type: Article

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