Testing Research Hypotheses Using Multiple Linear Regression

Multiple regression is becomingmore wide­ly used as the statistical technique for answering research hypotheses. This is so for several reasons: 1) the technique is extreme­ly versatile; 2) the computer has made the technique more available to researchers; and 3) texts such as the authors' earlier work are making the technique more available to re­searchers. The statistical technique of mul­tiple regression allows the inclusion of numerous continuous (quantitative) and categorical (qualitative) variables in the prediction of some criterion. Appendixes contain a multiple regression computer program and data on which the problems are based; a discussion of the simi­larities and differences between analysis of variance and multiple regression; and a computer program providing the regression solution to natural language research hy­potheses.

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R is a language and environment for data analysis and graphics. It may be considered an implementation of S, an award-winning language initially - veloped at Bell Laboratories since the late 1970s. The R project was initiated by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in the early 1990s, and has been developed by an international team since mid-1997. Historically, econometricians have favored other computing environments, some of which have fallen by the wayside, and also a variety of packages with canned routines. We believe that R has great potential in econometrics, both for research and for teaching. There are at least three reasons for this: (1) R is mostly platform independent and runs on Microsoft Windows, the Mac family of operating systems, and various ?avors of Unix/Linux, and also on some more exotic platforms. (2) R is free software that can be downloaded and installed at no cost from a family of mirror sites around the globe, the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN); hence students can easily install it on their own machines. (3) R is open-source software, so that the full source code is available and can be inspected to understand what it really does, learn from it, and modify and extend it. We also like to think that platform independence and the open-source philosophy make R an ideal environment for reproducible econometric research.

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In addition to providing a direct appli­cation of the approach of McNeil, Kelly, and McNeil (Southern Illinois University Press, 1975), Ernest L. Lewis and John T. Mouw update the practice of multiple regression analysis and thus enhance the use of this popu­lar technique in applied research. Writ­ten and organized for the learner, this new work uses contrast coding pro­cedures which provide means for re­searchers in experimentally oriented statistics to run specific contrasts in multiple regression. As users of the McNeil, Kelly, and McNeil text will know, that work stressed representative research design. In supplementing the earlier work, Lewis and Mouw have developed a com­panion text providing the experimental design bias. The two texts taken to­gether give the content-oriented re­searcher an approach that is understand­able without sacrificing rigor or utility.