negative relationship

an association in which one variable decreases as the other variable increases, or vice versa. Also called inverse relationship. See also indirect relationship. Compare direct relationship.

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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.