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This chapter reviews the essentials of regression analysis. For most readers it will be a refresher that can be skimmed quickly; it provides a concise, self-contained coverage of topics that are the staple of any good course on econometrics.

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    Here X is an N × K matrix in which each column represents the observations on one of the right-hand variables.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, USA

    Dominique Haughton

  2. Department of Economics, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA

    Jonathan Haughton

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Haughton, D., Haughton, J. (2011). Regression. In: Living Standards Analytics. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0385-2_2

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