Description
Book SynopsisDespite the recent rapid growth in machine learning and predictive analytics, many of the statistical questions that are faced by researchers and practitioners still involve explaining why something is happening. Regression analysis is the best swiss army knife' we have for answering these kinds of questions.
This book is a learning resource on inferential statistics and regression analysis. It teaches how to do a wide range of statistical analyses in both R and in Python, ranging from simple hypothesis testing to advanced multivariate modelling. Although it is primarily focused on examples related to the analysis of people and talent, the methods easily transfer to any discipline. The book hits a sweet spot' where there is just enough mathematical theory to support a strong understanding of the methods, but with a step-by-step guide and easily reproducible examples and code, so that the methods can be put into practice immediately. This makes the book accessible to a w
Table of Contents
1. The Importance of Regression in People Analytics. 2. The Basics of the R Programming Language. 3. Statistics Foundations. 4. Linear Regression for Continuous Outcomes. 5. Binomial Logistic Regression for Binary Outcomes. 6. Multinomial Logistic Regression for Nominal Category Outcomes. 7. Ordinal Logistic Regression for Ordered Category Outcomes. 8. Modeling Explicit and Latent Hierarchical Structure in Data. 9. Survival Analysis for Modeling the Occurrence of Singular Events Over Time. 10. Alternative Technical Approaches in R and Python. 11. Power Analysis to Estimate Required Sample Sizes for Inferential Modeling. 12. Further Exercises for Practice.
