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Multiple Regression: Additional Topics

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This chapter addresses several topics related to fitting ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression models. These were as follows: How to include nominal independent variables with three or more categories into a model, how to estimate nonlinear relationships, how and why to transform variables, how to test for interactions between two independent variables, and how to assess for multicollinearity.

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    We recognize that gender is not strictly binary, with some individuals being intersex at birth, and that gender includes male and female as well as nonbinary, transgender, and other identities. However, it is still common in the social sciences to treat this as a binary construct.

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    These data are available through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data and can be accessed at https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD.

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  1. Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Inst. of Criminology, Fac. of Law, Inst. of Criminology, Fac. of Law, Fairfax, VA, USA, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

  2. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA

    David B. Wilson

  3. Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Alese Wooditch

  4. Department of Sociology, Iowa State University Department of Sociology, Ames, IA, USA

    Chester Britt

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Weisburd, D., Wilson, D.B., Wooditch, A., Britt, C. (2022). Multiple Regression: Additional Topics. In: Advanced Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67738-1_3

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