© Bhasker Gupta 2016

Bhasker Gupta, Interview Questions in Business Analytics , 10.1007/978-1-4842-0599-0_5

5. Correlation and Regression

Bhasker Gupta

(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

This chapter is concerned with measuring the relatedness between two variables. A simple measure, the correlation coefficient, is commonly used to quantify the degree of relationship between two variables. In this chapter, I will discuss different types of regression models, assumptions and questions related to them, and the estimation method used commonly with regression models.

Q: What is correlation and what does it do?

In analytics, we try to find relationships and associations among various events. In the probabilistic context, we determine the relationships between ...

Get Interview Questions in Business Analytics now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.