Confronting multicollinearity in ecological multiple regression

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2809-2815

  Graham, Michael H ^a  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding factors; Multicollinearity; Multiple regression; Principal components regression; Sequential regression; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1342330862     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-3114     Document Type: Article

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