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MrL567
2180 days ago
Telling every time someone posts a bad regression they never post the R^2.
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surething123
2180 days ago
You might find this article insightful as to the utility of R-squared – "Is R-squared Useless?"
https://data.library.virginia.edu/is-r-squared-useless/
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sideshowb
2180 days ago
If only. Sometimes they smooth or bin the data points and
then
post r2!
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MrL567
2180 days ago
Reminds me about the classic regression excel joke saying that to get a better regression, one should sort the points to be in order first.
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https://data.library.virginia.edu/is-r-squared-useless/