A Note on Huberty and Wisenbaker's "Views of Variable Importance"

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 309-322

  Thomas, D Roland ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminant ratio coefficients; Grouping variable effects; MANOVA; Variable importance criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031491996     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986022003309     Document Type: Article

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