Multicollinearity Is A(n)

question 2

Multiple Choice

Multicollinearity is a(n) :

• A) statistical procedure that estimates regression equation coefficients which produce the lowest sum of squared differences between the actual and predicted values of the dependent variable.
• B) statistical technique which analyzes the linear relationship between a dependent variable and multiple independent variables by estimating coefficients for the equation for a straight line.
• C) estimated regression coefficient that has been recalculated to have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 1.
• D) statistic that compares the amount of variation in the dependent measure "explained" or associated with the independent variables to the "unexplained" or error variance.
• E) situation in which several independent variables are highly correlated with each other.

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