Model intuition [model]

(Builds on: Setup)
(Leads to: Many models, Visualising models)

This course approaches modelling a little differently to most statistics courses. We’re not going to rigorously covering the mathematical foundation of models. Instead, you’ll get some intution about what a model does, and then learn some computation tools for exploring fitted models.

In this unit, you’ll build up your intuition for what a model does, and what it tells you about a dataset.

Readings

• Introduction [r4ds-23.1]

• A simple model [r4ds-23.2]