Comparing Model Evaluation Techniques Part 3: Regression Models - DataScienceCentral.com

In this post, I'll take a look at how you can compare regression models. Comparing regression models is perhaps one of the trickiest tasks to complete in the "comparing models" arena; The reason is that there are literally dozens of statistics you can calculate to compare regression models, including: This list isn't exhaustive–there are many other tools, tests and plots at your disposal. Rather than discuss the statistics in detail, I chose to focus this post on comparing a few of the most popular regression model evaluation techniques and discuss when you might want to use them (or when you might not want to). The techniques listed below tend to be on the "easier to use and understand" end of the spectrum, so if you're new to model comparison it's a good place to start. The first question you should be asking is: How well do I know my data?