Some Common Myths About Centering Predictor Variables in Moderated Multiple Regression and Polynomial Regression

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-362

  Dalal, Dev K ^a   Zickar, Michael J ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collinearity; mean centering; moderated regression; multicollinearity; polynomial regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862167818     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428111430540     Document Type: Article

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