Multivariable analysis
Origin: Lat. multi-, variabĭlis, Gr. ἀνάλυσις
Analysis of many variables: synonym for the statistical procedure in social sciences to research the correlations or nexus among several variables. Thus, it especially analyzes in which measure the correlation found between two variables, with the introduction by calculation on the third or fourth variable, or in the case of more variables, changes or even decomposes it (apparent correlation). With multivariable analysis it is possible to discover, with empirical data help, the causal relationships and the reciprocal dependencies or the reinforcements that they give among themselves, and, in this sense, to verify statistically complex analyses in social sciences.
Spanish: Análisis multivariable
Sources and references
- Hillmann, Karl-Heinz. “Sociology encyclopedic dictionary.”cited 12 times
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