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Ambiguity surrounds any importance measure in cases in which predictor variables are correlated. However, a new measure is proposed that has attractive properties, such as providing individual contributions that are both non-negative and sum to R 2 . The new measure is compared with four other commonly used measures and its advantages over each of them are pointed out.
Green et al. (Tue,) studied this question.