STATS 489 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Feature Selection, World Health Report, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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They did not use stats to test hypothesis. Was it used to test hypotheses that have been. 1. formulated before the data analysis begins? spatial regression analysis. Ordinary least squares did not work because there was correlation among the errors. To improve estimates, they used a weight matrix w. they used hypothesis testing to see if spatial relation had an influence on the model. What is the population and what is the sample in the statistical analysis considered. The population is men and women aged 15 to 50 in north america, africa, europe, asia, and central/south america. They did not take their own sample from each of these locations, but rather used data extracted from the encyclopedia britannica"s book of the year 2002, world. Marriage patterns from the un, the world book atlas and development indicators, and the. The researchers used linear regression to model the proportion of ever-married.
