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Log model #4

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nwstephens opened this issue Apr 3, 2019 · 0 comments
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Log model #4

nwstephens opened this issue Apr 3, 2019 · 0 comments

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nwstephens commented Apr 3, 2019 •
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Most statisticians would do a log transform of the predictor and response in your model:

lm(log(hospitals) ~ log(population))

When you make new predictions, you should back transform the response so it's in the non-log space.

The log transform will lead to a better model, and prettier pictures, but will be slightly harder to interpret.
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