Introducing a Series of Highly Correlated Independent Variables into a Regression

question 51

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Introducing a series of highly correlated independent variables into a regression analysis will make it difficult to interpret the estimated regression coefficients because they may tend to fluctuate widely in response to small changes in the model or data set.

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