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A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many of Pew Research Center’s survey analyses show relationships between two ...

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Understand and code the R² metric (goodness of fit) in C++. A must-know concept for evaluating regression models.

In this study the Soviet Union serves as a prototype to demonstrate that basic demographic measures can be reconstructed from scanty data. Analytical tools designed for estimating such measures are ...