Regression

[musicgold]

Hi,

Are these two sentences correct?

1. Simple Linear Regression is most commonly used regression and assumed if not specified.

2. SLR is most commonly used regression and if not specified other wise, a given regression equation is assumed to be simple linear.

Thanks,

MG.

[Marius Hancu]

1. The Simple Linear Regression is the most commonly used regression and the one assumed if not specified. [you're talking about a specific scheme, thus you need to use the

2. The SLR is the most commonly used regression and if not specified/indicated/mentioned otherwise, a given regression equation is assumed to be simple linear in kind/nature.

[musicgold]

Marius Hancu,

Thanks.

The Simple Linear Regression

This always confuses me. I treated 'Simple Linear Regression' as a noun, and therefore did not use 'the' before it. What rule do you follow in such situations?

Thanks again,

MG.

[Marius Hancu]

So what? You're still taking about a specific method, the SLR one.

Read a bit similar examples at Google Books:

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ASP.NET 2.0 website programming: problem-design-solution‎ - Page 365 (http://books.google.com/books?id=hziE1NB0UkIC&pg=PA365&dq=%22The+*+method+uses%22)

by Marco Bellinaso - Computers (http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Computers%22) - 2006 - 576 pages

The SendEmails method uses the ...
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1997 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium‎ - Page 1147 (http://books.google.com/books?id=OQZWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+*+method+uses%22&dq=%22The+*+method+uses%22)

by IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society - Science (http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Science%22) - 1997 - 2105 pages

The PSTD method uses the fast Fourier transform (FFT) together with the
perfectly matched layer (PML) to solve the partial-differential equations. ...

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Pro Asp.Net 2.0 In C# 2005‎ (http://books.google.com/books?id=Ae9yQFFJbEgC&dq=%22The+*+method+uses%22)

by Matthew Macdonald, Mario Szpuszta - Computers (http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Computers%22) - 2005 - 1256 pages
Page 882

... every provider has three types for storing the password: clear, hashed, and encrypted. The CreateUser method uses a private helper method of the ...
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More at:

2,280 on "The * method uses"
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Get Swan, Practical English Usage and read it.





EXPLANATIONS AND EXERCISES

by Mary Ansell

[musicgold]

Thanks.

The SendEmails method uses ...

IMHO, the article 'the' here applies to 'method' and not to the noun 'SendEmails'.

Of course, the same argument can be applied to 'The simple linear regression' where it can be said that the term 'method' is omitted but assumed.

Am I making sense?

Thanks again,

MG.

[Marius Hancu]

No, the pertains to "SLR method" as a whole.

See:
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch14.html#4

[musicgold]

Thanks a lot.