windlove 发表于 2010-2-22 00:21
I think you better to find a reference book, coz you might have no background in statistics.

I recommend "Applied Linear Regression 3rd" by SANFORD WEISBERG.  I am sure the book can be d\l from the forum here.

jiliangamelia 发表于 2010-2-21 23:44

windlove 发表于 2010-2-21 23:04
OLS doesn't require any distributional assumptions about the data, as u might see from the formula.
However for the inference purpose, it might be the way. Plot your control variable vs. response variable first, see whether it suggests linear relationship or not.
If responses are  increasing with the increase in explanatory variable, but the shape is not exactly "straight",  then you might consider transformation.

Also what is the type of your control variable? continues? categorical?

一共11个控制变量，都是连续型的数据。response variables是控制变量的意思吧？

bobguy 发表于 2010-2-22 03:19

I think you had better to let the professional one do it.

Statistic analysis  is not the job just for anyone who just knows little about almost everything.

Statistic analysis is the combination knowledge of business, data, statistics. Lack anyone of them would be useless(GIGO).