Estimating the Relative Importance of Variables in Multiple Regression Models

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011

Volumn 26, Issue , 2011, Pages 119-141

  Krasikova, Dina ^a   LeBreton, James M ^a   Tonidandel, Scott ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

"completely dominate"; Bias corrected accelerated (BCa); Counterproductive work behavior (CWB); Historical measures of relative importance; Modern relative importance statistics; Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB); Recent developments in relative importance research; Variable importance in multiple regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551652156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119992592.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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