Concepts of relative importance

How might one interpret the relative importance of independent variables, causes or determiners when a dependent variable depends on those determiners together with chance? Such questions arise throughout science, technology, and national life. The paper attemps to clarify and critically describe a...

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Autor: Kruskal, William
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1984
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099/4413
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2099/4413
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Inference
Relative importance
Regression
Variance reduction
Inferència
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics::62J Linear inference, regression
Descrição
Resumo:How might one interpret the relative importance of independent variables, causes or determiners when a dependent variable depends on those determiners together with chance? Such questions arise throughout science, technology, and national life. The paper attemps to clarify and critically describe a number of approaches to the problem of understanding relative importance.