Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: Checking assumptions concerning regression residuals1,2

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 533-539

  Barker, Lawrence E ^a   Shaw, Kate M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Normality; Regression; Residuals; Statistics; Variance

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; VARIANCE; EDITORIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84941659987     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.115.113498     Document Type: Review

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