When We Have a Large Number of Possible Independent Variables

question 17

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When we have a large number of possible independent variables that we want to explore, and we want to find a smaller set of these variables to use in predicting the dependent variable, eliminating other variables that add only an insignificant or trivial amount of explained variation in the dependent variable beyond the smaller set, we should use the hierarchical multiple regression method.

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