The δ i 2 measure suggested by Green, Carroll, and DeSarbo for measuring the importance of individual independent variables in multiple regression is shown to involve exactly the same types of shortcomings as do the measures it is intended to replace.
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Barbara Bund Jackson (1980) studied this question.
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