Terminology: Multiple Regression versus multivariate Reg
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
(Ted Harding) wrote:
There is an unfortunate (in my view) tendency for people to use "multivariate regression" whden talking about what I call "multiple regression" above (i.e. more than 1 independent variable). I think this should be reserved for regression where the left-hand side is multivariate. But maybe I'm in a minority ...
If so, a minority of at least two... Part of the problem is that people will often (for better or worse) screen a set of predictors by "univariate regression", which should probably be the rather less catchy "single-predictor regression". (As far as I remember, SPSS, "canonicalizes" the term in its menu system.)
Another approach (maybe more correct?) that I have seen in some papers, is to use "multivariable regression" for more than one predictors, and "univariable regression" for just a single one. Best, Dimitris
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