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One of the key skills that every statistics student assigned to perform linear regression using STATA is the ability to predict outcomes. A key statistical procedure in modern data analysis, linear regression offers a quantitative understanding of the effect of independent variables on a dependent variable, helping statistics scholars and researchers to forecast the...

What is Survival Analysis?

Survival analysis is an imperative statistical concept when it comes to biostatistics and healthcare statistics, to evaluate time-to-event data. It is more advanced than just simple average, enabling us to analyze the likelihood of something happening at a certain time period into the future and be aware that not everyone is affe...

Have you ever been swarming in data in such a way that it feels like you are drowning? Imagine Sarah, a college sophomore majoring in environmental science, sitting in front of her laptop screen wide-eyed at 2 a.m. trying to comprehend a dataset for her project homework. Her coffee is cold as she stares at them. She is too tired to do anything, and the numbers on th...