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Regression Analysis for Social Sciences

By: Alexander von Eye

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Regression analysis allows one to relate one or more criterion variables to one or more predictor variables. The term "to relate" is an empty formula that can be filled with an ever increasing number of concepts, assumptions, and procedures. Introductory textbooks of statistics for the social and behavioral sciences typically include only a description of classical simple and multiple regression where parameters are estimated using ordinary least-squares (OLS). OLS yields estimates that can have very desirable characteristics. Therefore it is deemed useful under many circumstances, as attested to by the many applications of this method. Indeed, O LS regression is one of the most frequently used methods of applied statistics.