Learn the difference between linear regression and multiple regression and how investors can use these types of statistical analysis.

Simple linear regression is commonly used in forecasting and financial analysis—for a company to tell how a change in the GDP could affect sales, for example. Microsoft Excel and other software ...

VIDEO: It's easy to run a regression in Excel and you only need to understand a few data points to make sense of the results.

The problem of selecting the best subset or subsets of independent variables in a multiple linear regression analysis is two-fold. The first, and most important problem is the development of criterion ...