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Linear regression models, also known as linear models, are essential tools in various fields due to their simplicity and ease of interpretation. This workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to both simple and multiple linear regression.

What You'll Learn:

• Fundamentals of regression models and their assumptions
• How to interpret coefficients and conduct significance testing
• Exploring interactions between variables and using dummy variables
• Model-checking techniques, including residual plots and collinearity diagnostics
• Methods for model selection

Once you have found your research topic and landed on research questions you aim to answer with survey data from human research participants, then it is time to decide who to observe and gather information from. Sampling, the process of selecting the people you are going to gather data from with your survey, is a crucial step in the data collection process. It is essential to consider the best way(s) to select your sample, given the resources (time, money, access, etc.) available to you, to achieve the best-quality sample, and thus the best quality data, possible. This workshop delves into the art of sampling in survey research, and reviews current best practices for a variety of sampling procedures available to researchers in Canada.