I’m thrilled to announce the release of my first ebook! Regression Analysis: An Intuitive Guide for Using and Interpreting Linear Models.
If you like the clear writing style I use on this website, you’ll love this book!
Over the course of this full-length ebook (338 pages), you’ll progress from a beginner to a skilled practitioner. I’ll help you intuitively understand regression analysis by focusing on concepts and graphs rather than equations and formulas. I use everyday language so you can grasp regression at a deeper level.
You will learn practical tips for performing your analysis and interpreting the results. Feel confident that you’re analyzing your data properly and able to trust your results. Know that you can detect and correct problems that arise.
Regardless of your background, I will show you how to perform regression analysis. Students, career changers, and even current analysts looking to take your skills to the next level, this book has absolutely everything you need to know for regression analysis.
My eBook Covers A Lot About Regression Analysis!
In this ebook, you’ll learn many facets of regression analysis including the following:
- How regression works and when to use it.
- Selecting the correct type of regression analysis.
- Specifying the best model.
- Understanding main effects, interaction effects, and modeling curvature.
- Using continuous and categorical (nominal) variables.
- Interpreting the results.
- Assessing the fit of the model.
- Generating predictions and evaluating their precision.
- Checking the assumptions.
- Examples of different types of regression analyses.
- Downloadable datasets so you can try it yourself.
- Answers common questions and concerns I’ve encountered over the years!
I’ve literally received thousands of requests from aspiring data scientists for guidance in performing regression analysis. This book is my answer – years of knowledge and thousands of hours of hard work distilled into a thorough, practical guide for performing regression analysis.
You’ll notice that there are not many equations in this book. After all, you should let your statistical software handle the calculations so you don’t get bogged down in the calculations and can instead focus on understanding your results. Instead, I focus on the concepts and practices that you’ll need to know to perform the analysis and interpret the results correctly. I’ll use more graphs than equations!
Don’t get me wrong. Equations are important. Equations are the framework that makes the magic, but the truly fascinating aspects are what it all means. I want you to learn the true essence of regression analysis. I want you to understand the essential concepts, practices, and knowledge for regression analysis so you can analyze your data confidently. That’s the goal of my book.
I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Hey Jim! Congrats on your fist book. Would you say it would be helpful for someone dealing with lots of econometrics? I would definitely appreciate some intuitive explanations for penalized linear regression methods, logistic regression interpretations and so on… 🙂 Thank you!
Hi Sasha, thank you! It is good for someone who is studying econometrics. In fact, going way back, my first experience with regression was in an econometrics class. However, I do not cover penalized linear models as that is more of an advance method. I do include an example of binary logistic regression, but not in-depth. Perhaps I can cover those more advanced topics in the a followup book!
Awesome! I can’t wait to read this book. I’ve been waiting for you to write a book for a long time now. You are, hands down, the best stats teacher I’ve ever come across. Where were you when I was struggling with this subject in university?!
Hi Leonard, thank you so much! Your kind words made my day! I hope you enjoy the book!
Dear Jim,
I’ve bought your book, at least as a support of your work that you are doing here on this website. Your posts are very useful and provide me answers that I cannot find in any books about regression analysis.
Best wishes,
Jiri
Hi Jiri, Thank you so much! I appreciate that tremendously! 🙂
Hi Jim,
Congrats!!!
Thank you, Ciro!!
First, congratulations!
Secondly, can users of other software find benefit from using your book to grasp the concepts and contents ?
Hi Eric,
Yes! The main goals of the book are to teach the concepts, best practices, model specification, interpretation, assumptions, problem solving, avoiding common traps, and so on for regression analysis. In short, I want readers to learn the skills for using regression. These goals all apply to regression analysis regardless of the statistical software someone uses. One thing I don’t do is detail the procedures for performing all of this in Minitab. That’s not the focus. The Minitab output I show should be relatable to users of other statistical software packages. Lots of graphs. And output tables that are similar to other applications such as ANOVA, coefficients, goodness-of-fit, etc.
In my book, I use the same approach that I use throughout my blog posts. So, those should give you a good idea of what to expect.
Congrats! Such an achievement
Thank you!
As a student, I prefer to study through books. So please let me know when the print version is available. And of course come to India once again, Sir. We will be happy to see you.
Hi Ratnadeep, if there’s enough demand for one, I’ll create a print version in the future. Thanks for writing!
Hi Jim! Congratulations on your new book! Looking forward to getting it!
Are there any plans to publish it in print as well?
Hi Chuck,
Thank you and thanks for ordering it!
If there’s enough demand for a print version, I’ll create one in the future. It’ll involve a bunch of work on my part to get that ready.
Hello Jim.
Please what kind of program do you use in this book to perform your Regression Analysis? I am hoping for STATA. ☺
Hi Howard,
I use Minitab throughout the book. I do like the idea of creating companion books for different software packages.
Looks great – I’ll certainly buy a copy today as your way of explaining statistics has been a lifeline on so many occasions during my PhD.
Congratulations on your first book – a massive achievement!
Hi Neil,
Thank you so very much for your kind words. I’m glad to have been of assistance on your journey to a PhD!
Hi Jim, I am a lecturing econometrics. How long will it take to get the book if I pay now
Hi,
It’s an ebook so you can download it immediately!
Hi Jim,
I am your great fan of statistics.
You explanation level is awesome.
Happy to hear about your ebook.
Hearty wishes to you.
Rajesh J
Hi Rajesh,
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind words!
Best wishes for you as well.
Congratulations
Thank you, Salwa!
Hi Jim,
Congratulations!
Thank you very much!! 🙂
Hello Jim Sir, I am a post graduate student from India. Your blogs helped me a lot to understand lots of complex topics. I hope the book will also serve the same purpose. I need this book. Kindly let me know the price in Indian currency.
Hi Ratnadeep,
I’m so happy to hear that you found my blog to be helpful. I strive to make complex topic easier to understand. I use this same approach in my book as I do in my blog posts, so I think you’ll like it!
I Googled a currency converter and found that the book is 627 Indian Rupees.
By the way, I’ve had the pleasure of traveling to India several times and loved it! 🙂
Congrats..I was eagerly waiting for your book.Is it available on Amazon
Hi Adil,
Thanks you! Currently, it’s only available for sale on my website. Were you looking for a print version?
Is this available in hard copy too ?
Hi Ishita,
It’s not currently available in hard copy. However, if there are enough requests, I might create a physical book version in the future.
Thanks for asking!
Congrats! Will get my copy soon and hope to recommend it to my students
Thank you!
Congratulations🎉🎊
Thank you, Hemant!
I love your style in explaining statics. Nice to see the eBook now in my laptop.
Thanks for the great work.
Hi Sheng-Leun,
Thank you so much! Both for the kind words and buying the ebook. 🙂
Enjoy!
Very nice to see this. Eager for it and will by soon
Thank you, Tesfakiros! I really appreciate that! 🙂