Determining the Statistical Significance of Relative Weights

Psychological Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-399

  Tonidandel, Scott ^a   LeBreton, James M ^b   Johnson, Jeff W ^c  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Personnel Decisions Research Institutes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrapping; multiple regression; predictor importance; relative importance; relative weights

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 72449152258     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017735     Document Type: Article

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