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Like a lot of people, Miu has had trouble learning regression analysis. But with new motivation—in the form of a handsome but shy customer—and the help of her brilliant café coworker Risa, she’s determined to master it.

Follow along with Miu and Risa in The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis as they calculate the effect of temperature on iced tea orders, predict bakery revenues, and work out the probability of cake sales with simple, multiple, and logistic regression analysis. You’ll get a refresher in basic concepts like matrix equations, inverse functions, logarithms, and differentiation before diving into the hard stuff. Learn how to:
–Calculate the regression equation
–Check the accuracy of your equation with the correlation coefficient
–Perform hypothesis tests and analysis of variance, and calculate confidence intervals
–Make predictions using odds ratios and prediction intervals
–Verify the validity of your analysis with diagnostic checks
–Perform chi-squared tests and F-tests to check the goodness of fit

Whether you’re learning regression analysis for the first time or have just never managed to get your head around it, The Manga Guide to Regression Analysis makes mastering this tricky technique straightforward and fun.

Praise for The Manga Guides
"Stimulus for the next generation of scientists."
—Scientific Computing

"Highly recommended."
—Choice Magazine

"Whether you're new to the whole concept of databases, or a hard-core database geek, you need to have The Manga Guide to Databases. Really, you want this book."
—Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL Core Team (Read More)

"The books are overall solidly written and make hard science topics entertaining."
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The Manga Guide to Statistics "is really what a good math text should be like. Unlike the majority of books on subjects like statistics, it doesn't just present the material as a dry series of pointless-seeming formulas. It presents statistics as something fun, and something enlightening. It shows you why you should care about this material, and how it's useful even to people in non-mathematical fields."
—Good Math, Bad Math (Read More)

The Manga Guide to Electricity "is a lot of fun to read. The interactions between the characters are lighthearted, and the whole setting has a sort of quirkiness about it that makes you keep reading just for the joy of it."
—Hackaday (Read More)

"I found the cartoon approach of [The Manga Guide to Physics] so compelling and its story so endearing that I recommend that every teacher of introductory physics, in both high school and college, consider using it."
—American Journal of Physics