Spotlight Analysis for Interpreting Interactions

by Karen

Not too long ago, a client asked for help with using Spotlight Analysis to interpret an interaction in a regression model.

Spotlight Analysis? I had never heard of it.

As it turns out, it’s a (snazzy) new name for an old way of interpreting an interaction between a continuous and a categorical grouping variable in a regression model. [click to continue…]

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