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Subject: Re: Interpreting OLS Matlab results
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kostas Lynch wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to Matlab and looking to interpret the below results. I'm not
> sure what the signiificance of things like the R squared, ...
> Ordinary Least-squares Estimates 
> R-squared      =    0.0644 
...

This really isn't a ML question at all.

That value of R^2 implies the model explains only 6% of the total 
variance of the data (which by inference leaves 94% unexplained).

Have you plotted these data and the model fit to look for 
reasonableness?????

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