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Lecture 3: Multiple Regression Model - McCombs School of Business

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Why not look at R 2<br />

◮ R 2 in MLR is still a measure <strong>of</strong> goodness <strong>of</strong> fit.<br />

◮ However it ALWAYS grows as we increase the number <strong>of</strong><br />

explanatory variables.<br />

◮ Even if there is no relationship between the X ′ s and Y ,<br />

R 2 > 0!!<br />

◮ To see this let’s look at some “Garbage” Data<br />

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