Chapter 6 M6: Regression Alternatives

Having spent a long and interesting semester unpacking regression, we’ll now take a peek at some completely different methods (or at least, methods that look completely different!). We can use these methods to get predictions for either quantitative or categorical responses, and sometimes, to learn more about the system we’re describing.

Of course, these methods all have their own assumptions and conditions – and places where you, the analyst, have to make decisions about what to do!