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Curtis, Ervin W. – 1976
The optimum weighting of variables to predict a dependent-criterion variable is an important problem in nearly all of the social and natural sciences. Although the predominant method, multiple regression analysis (MR), yields optimum weights for the sample at hand, these weights are not generally optimum in the population from which the sample was…
Descriptors: Correlation, Error Patterns, Factor Analysis, Matrices