Article ID: | iaor19982001 |
Country: | New Zealand |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 119 |
End Page Number: | 131 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1997 |
Journal: | Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision Sciences |
Authors: | Drezner Zvi, Dear Roger |
The concept of the multirelation coefficient is defined to describe the closeness of a set of variables to a linear relation. This concept extends the linear correlation between two variables to two or more variables. Parameters of a beta distribution are determined that are utilized to approximate significance levels of the multirelation coefficient for any given number of observations and variables. A generalized Student