Dear R-group, We have begun to use it for teaching Statistics. In this context we have run into a problem with linear regression
where we found the results of are confusing. Specifically, considering the data: x=c(4,5,6,3,7,8,10,14,13,15,6,7,8,10,11,4,5,17,12,11) y=c(rep(7,20)) and settings regress=lm(y~x) summary(regress) gives the following results: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 7.000e+00 8.623e-17 8.118e+16 <2e-16 *** x -1.116e-17 8.956e-18 -1.247e+00 0.229 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 1.565e-16 on 18 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.6416, Adjusted R-squared: 0.6217 Other statistical packages respond that the analysis can not be done. We think that the results of R-squared does not seem to express the variability of y explained by x. We would greatly appreciate any clarification you could provide. Thanks you and best regards. Marta di Nicola e Colagrande Vittorio [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.