R-squared is not percentage but is proportion.

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Code and Data for the Second Edition of "Practical SQL" by Anthony DeBarros, published by No Starch Press (2022).

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R-squared is not percentage but is proportion. #15

Open vasili111 opened 1 year ago

vasili111 commented 1 year ago

On page 191 I read:

An R-squared indicated the percentage of variation...

R-squared is not a percentage but is proportion.

More information can be found by googling: https://www.google.com/search?q=rsqured

anthonydb commented 1 year ago

I've seen it defined both ways. This, for example, is from Duke University: https://people.duke.edu/~rnau/rsquared.htm

And this is from Penn State University: https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat462/node/95/

I'll check with some statisticians and try to get a consensus.

vasili111 commented 1 year ago

In the Penn Sate University link that you have provided they are converting r-squared to percentages after multiplying it by 100. That means that original value is proportion. Screenshot: