R help - Nov 2012 - Basic Stats question

Dear All
I am a stats newbie and have a basic stats question;
i have y as dependent variable and x1 to x5 as dependent variable.
I need to know which variables x1 to x5 are actually affecting y. How
do I find out?
can an example be given which makes things clear (if possible)?
Thanks
Parth

If you read the posting guide mentioned at the bottom of every list message, it
indicates that this  is not really a forum for statistics theory discussions.
Once you understand the theory well enough to know which algorithms you want to
use (and the assumptions that go along with them), there are ways to search
within R for builtin or add-on functions that implement those algorithms. This
is a good place to ask about how to use R (though you may be directed to read
the documentation if your questions are too vague).

You might try stats.stackexchange.com or consult your local statistician.
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Partha Sinha <pnsinha68 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear All
>I am a stats newbie and have a basic stats question;
>i have y as dependent variable and x1 to x5 as dependent variable.
>I need to know which variables x1 to x5 are actually affecting y. How
>do I find out?
>can an example be given which makes things clear (if possible)?
>Thanks
>Parth
>
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>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Hi
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> project.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 3:21 PM
> To: Partha Sinha; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Basic Stats question
> 
> If you read the posting guide mentioned at the bottom of every list
> message, it indicates that this  is not really a forum for statistics
> theory discussions. Once you understand the theory well enough to know
> which algorithms you want to use (and the assumptions that go along
> with them), there are ways to search within R for builtin or add-on
> functions that implement those algorithms. This is a good place to ask
> about how to use R (though you may be directed to read the
> documentation if your questions are too vague).
> 
> You might try stats.stackexchange.com or consult your local
> statistician.
Anyway you can check

?lm 

for the start.

Regards
Petr

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> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> Partha Sinha <pnsinha68 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Dear All
> >I am a stats newbie and have a basic stats question;
> >i have y as dependent variable and x1 to x5 as dependent variable.
> >I need to know which variables x1 to x5 are actually affecting y. How
> >do I find out?
> >can an example be given which makes things clear (if possible)?
> >Thanks
> >Parth
> >
> >______________________________________________
> >R-help at 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.
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.