Often the questions we ask require us to make accurate predictions on how one factor affects an outcome. If a teacher is asked to work out how time spent writing an essay affects essay grades, it’s ...

The iteratively reweighted least squares algorithm is routinely employed to evaluate robust regression estimates. The importance of beginning the algorithm with a robust estimator of the unknown ...

Our teacher already knows there is a positive relationship between how much time was spent on an essay and the grade the essay gets, but we’re going to need some data to demonstrate this properly.