This article relates the incidence of fire deaths to a number of regressor variables that may have predictive or explanatory value. The data for these analyses arise in the setting of "natural experiments." That is, we analyze data as it arises in nature. Regression analysis is a statistical procedure for modeling and investigating the relationship between variables in this setting.
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