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> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Matti
> Viljamaa
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 2:44 PM
> To: r-help at R-project.org
> Subject: [R] How to interpret lm's coefficients?
>
> I?m trying to understand how to interpret the return values, specifically
> ?Coefficients:?, of R?s lm function. I?m using it with a dichotomic
predictor
> (mom_hs).
>
> lm(data$kid_score ~ data$mom_hs) returns
>
> Coefficients:
> # (Intercept) data$mom_hs
> # 77.55 11.77
>
> I read that the (Intercept) value is the ?y-intercept? value b, i.e. the y
value
> where the line intercept the y-axis.
>
> The second value is the value of the term m (or ?slope?) in the equation of
a
> line y=mx+b.
>
> However,
>
> These two numbers also have the following interpretations:
>
> b or (Intercept) value is the same as:
> The mean of those data$kid_score that have data$mom_hs == 0.
> Why is this a valid interpretation?
Well, you should rather to look into some statistical textbook. E.g.
Practical Regression and Anova using R, Julian J. Faraway
or
SimpleR, J. Verzani
The explanation is not for few lines of plain text short mail.
But maybe others will disagree.
Cheers
Petr
PS.
Or you can try to find an interpretation from plots yourself.
plot(data$kid_score ~ data$mom_hs)
abline( lm(data$kid_score ~ data$mom_hs)
>
> m or data$mom_hs value is the same as:
> The difference of means between those data$kid_score that have
> data$mom_hs == 1 and those data$kid_score that have data$mom_hs == 0.
> Why is this a valid interpretation?
>
> Can someone explain?
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