Stimulus-response model
The
stimulus-response model describes a
statistical unit as making a quantitative response to a quantitative stimulus administered by the researcher. The object of this kind of research is to establish a mathematical function that describes the relation between the stimulus amd the response :
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The most common form assumed for such functions is linear, thus we expect to see a relationship like
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Statistical theory for linear models has been well developed for more than fifty years and a standard form of analysis called
linear regression has been developed.