##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ~~META:title =December 1, 2016~~ ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, December 1, 2016 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Liping Gu, Binghamton University | ^ **TITLE:**| Factors that influence the IMDB scores of a movie| \\ **Abstract** A linear model is fitted and an additive model is used to get a further result. After fitting the linear model, the factors that are not in numerical type are set apart and an analysis of main effects is made by representing the predictors in the way of dummy variables.