The University has provided you with a dataset relating to 1,000 former students. Of a long list of variables in the data, one variable is IPi, which has a value of 1 if the i th student undertook an industrial placement and 0 otherwise. In modelling the impact of a range of student characteristics on the probability of an individual student under-taking an industrial placement: Explain why an Ordinary Least Squares model is inappropriate and suggest an alternative approach.

The University has provided you with a dataset relating to 1,000 former students. Of a long list of variables in the data, one variable is IPi, which has a value of 1 if the i th student undertook an industrial placement and 0 otherwise. In modelling the impact of a range of student characteristics on the probability of an individual student under-taking an industrial placement: Explain why an Ordinary Least Squares model is inappropriate and suggest an alternative approach.

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

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ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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