Re: [R] Basic Stats question

2012-11-18 Thread PIKAL Petr
Hi > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 3:21 PM > To: Partha Sinha; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Basic Stats question > > If yo

Re: [R] Basic Stats question

2012-11-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
If you read the posting guide mentioned at the bottom of every list message, it indicates that this is not really a forum for statistics theory discussions. Once you understand the theory well enough to know which algorithms you want to use (and the assumptions that go along with them), there a

[R] Basic Stats question

2012-11-17 Thread Partha Sinha
Dear All I am a stats newbie and have a basic stats question; i have y as dependent variable and x1 to x5 as dependent variable. I need to know which variables x1 to x5 are actually affecting y. How do I find out? can an example be given which makes things clear (if possible)? Thanks Parth ___