Message-ID: <49F18952.3030704@erasmusmc.nl>
Date: 2009-04-24T09:41:38Z
From: Dimitris Rizopoulos
Subject: Terminology: Multiple Regression versus multivariate Reg
In-Reply-To: <49F185EC.9020702@biostat.ku.dk>
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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