7.7 R2 IN FIXED-
REGRESSION
In (7.39), we have
. Thus the corrected total sum of squares
can be partitioned as

Where
is the regression sum of squares. From (7.37), we obtain
, and multiplying this by
gives
. Then
can be written as
In this form, it is clear that SSR is due to
.
The proportion of the total sum of squares due to regression is
(7.55)
which is known as the coefficient of determination or the squared multiple correlation. The ratio in (7.55) is a measure of model fit and provides an indication of how well the
’s predict
.
The partitioning in (7.55) can be rewritten as the identity

= SSR + SSE,
which leads to an alternative expression for R2:
(7.56)
The positive square root R obtained from (7.55) or (7.56) is called the multiple correlation coefficient. If the
variable were random, R would estimate a population multiple correlation (see Section (10.4)).
We list some properties of R2 and R:
1. The range of R2 is 0 ≤ R2≤ 1. If all the
’s were zero, except
, R2 would be 0. (This event has probability 0 for continuous data.) If all the
values fell on the fitted surface, that is, if
then R2 would be 1.