What strengths does linear regression provide

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Discussion Question - These are just 5-point question/answers, don't have to be a real essay just a quick response in simple English please. 200 word's each.

Chapter 14 in Using and Interpreting Statistics: A Practical Text for the Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences.

(Please try to answer in plain, simple English as I rarely use fancy words, you know the average American is not like British English. Thank you ;)

1. Much of the data that public health professionals have access to includes web tools for analysis or reports that discuss the applied analysis from the data. Given the limited amount of statistical calculations required by some public health positions, explain why it is important for you to know how to utilize appropriate software to perform these tasks. Support your ideas with reasons, facts, and examples.

2. Given the other statistical tests discussed so far, what strengths does linear regression provide that the other tests do not? Identify a peer-reviewed study that uses linear regression in its analysis. Explain why linear regression was used and discuss one challenge in interpreting the results.

Textbook Read Chapter 14 in Using and Interpreting Statistics: A Practical Text for the Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences. Corty, E. (2016). Using and Interpreting Statistics A practical text for the behavioral, social, and health sciences (3 ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.

Read "How to Control Confounding Effects by Statistical Analysis," by Pourhoseingholi, Baghestani, and Vahedi, from Gastroenterology and Hepatology From Bed to Bench (2012).

"Regression Modelling and Other Methods to Control Confounding," by McNamee, from Occupational & Environmental Medicine (2005).

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