Re: Multiple regression in Oracle

Bruman wrote:
> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
> > I know Oracle 10gR2 can do linear regression. It does it quite well. But
> > has anyone ever accomplished multiple regression? I found some definitions
> > for multiple regression on the web and it looks like greek. Serious! There
> > were so many alpha's and betas that I thought I was watching some random
> > version of Stargate SG1.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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> >
> > Andreas Sheriff
> > Oracle 9i Certified Professional
> > Oracle 10g Certified Professional
> > Oracle 9i Certified PL/SQL Developer
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> > "How can you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat?"
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> I was browisng the Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide available at
> :
> http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14223/analysis.htm#sthref1803
>
> It has a section on Linear Algebra and gives a good example of multiple
> linear regression using the UTL_NLA package.
> I am not a math person either but found it fairly easy to understand.

Looks like there is more that oracle has already built in than I expected to find in this area. Received on Wed Dec 20 2006 - 13:26:40 CST