Linear regression and information systems: An exploratory study

Linear regression serves information systems researchers and practitioners in different ways: experimentally verifying a priori models and theories, constructing data-based models and theories, and enabling data-based and model-based decision making. Drawing on these differences, regression applications occuring over the last decade are examined. Evidence gathered by this study suggests that these differences are often not acknowledged, leading to results that are frequently suboptimal and at times erroneous.