When the Independent Variables Are Correlated with One Another in a Multiple

question 82

Multiple Choice

When the independent variables are correlated with one another in a multiple regression analysis,this condition is called:

• A)heteroscedasticity.
• B)homoscedasticity.
• C)multicollinearity.
• D)None of these choices.

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