POINTS OF SIGNIFICANCE Simple linear regression

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作者
Altman, Naomi [1 ]
Krzywinski, Martin [2 ]
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, Stat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[2] Canadas Michael Smith Genome Sci Ctr, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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10.1038/nmeth.3627
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The statistician knows...that in nature there never was a normal distribution, there never was a straight line, yet with normal and linear assumptions, known to be false, he can often derive results which match, to a useful approximation, those found in the real world. © 2015 Nature America, Inc.
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