moral masochism

in psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious need for punishment by authority figures caused by unconscious guilt arising from the repressed Oedipus complex. It is a nonsexual form of masochism.

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November 24th 2024

commonality analysis

in multiple regression, a technique by which the known variance in an outcome or response variable is separated out into the parts that can be uniquely attributed to each individual predictor variable and the parts that are common to any two or more variables.