Using the World Wide Web: Suggested Applications and Precautions for Teaching Multiple Linear Regression

Abstract

The World Wide Web provides an excellent resource of real data that can be used by research methods instructors. Using this data in class allows more time for students to spend learning how to write appropriate statistical equations. This paper provides two examples of multiple linear regression equations that were written based on data available on the World Wide Web. It also provides a number of Internet references for instructors that would be helpful for obtaining real data that can be applied in a statistics course.