FIGURE numbers the bits as though the three contiguous bit words were one bit word in which bits store the bit fraction, f ; bit 63 stores the explicit leading significand bit, j ; bits store the bit biased exponent, e ; and bit 79 stores the sign bit, s.
The values of the bit patterns in the four fields f , j , e and s , determine the value represented by the overall bit pattern. TABLE shows the correspondence between the counting number values of the four constituent field and the value represented by the bit pattern.
Notice that bit patterns in double-extended format do not have an implicit leading significand bit. The leading significand bit is given explicitly as a separate field, j , in the double-extended format. The union of the disjoint fields j and f in the double extended format is called the significand. In the x86 double-extended format, a bit pattern whose leading significand bit j is 0 and whose biased exponent field e is also 0 represents a subnormal number, whereas a bit pattern whose leading significand bit j is 1 and whose biased exponent field e is nonzero represents a normal number.
Because the leading significand bit is represented explicitly rather than being inferred from the value of the exponent, this format also admits bit patterns whose biased exponent is 0, like the subnormal numbers, but whose leading significand bit is 1. Each such bit pattern actually represents the same value as the corresponding bit pattern whose biased exponent field is 1, i. Pseudo-denormals are merely an artifact of the x86 double-extended format's encoding; they are implicitly converted to the corresponding normal numbers when they appear as operands, and they are never generated as results.
The bit patterns in the second column appear as one 4-digit hexadecimal counting number, which is the value of the 16 least significant bits of the highest addressed bit word recall that the most significant 16 bits of this highest addressed bit word are unused, so their value is not shown , followed by two 8-digit hexadecimal counting numbers, of which the left one is the value of the middle addressed bit word, and the right one is the value of the lowest addressed bit word.
The maximum positive normal number is the largest finite number representable in the x86 double-extended format. The minimum positive subnormal number is the smallest positive number representable in the double-extended format.
This section covers the notions of range and precision for a given storage format. For concreteness, in defining the notions of range and precision we refer to the IEEE single format.
The IEEE standard specifies that 32 bits be used to represent a floating point number in single format. Because there are only finitely many combinations of 32 zeroes and ones, only finitely many numbers can be represented by 32 bits. One natural question is:. Rephrase the question and introduce the notion of range:.
Taking into account the precise definition of IEEE single format, one can prove that the range of floating-point numbers that can be represented in IEEE single format if restricted to positive normalized numbers is as follows:.
A second question refers to the precision not to be confused with the accuracy or the number of significant digits of the numbers represented in a given format. These notions are explained by looking at some pictures and examples. The IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic specifies the set of numerical values representable in the single format.
Remember that this set of numerical values is described as a set of binary floating-point numbers. The significand of the IEEE single format has 23 bits, which together with the implicit leading bit, yield 24 digits bits of binary precision. One obtains a different set of numerical values by marking the numbers:. Notice that the two sets are different. Therefore, estimating the number of significant decimal digits corresponding to 24 significant binary digits, requires reformulating the problem.
Reformulate the problem in terms of converting floating-point numbers between binary representations the internal format used by the computer and the decimal format the format users are usually interested in.
In fact, you may want to convert from decimal to binary and back to decimal, as well as convert from binary to decimal and back to binary. It is important to notice that because the sets of numbers are different, conversions are in general inexact. If done correctly, converting a number from one set to a number in the other set results in choosing one of the two neighboring numbers from the second set which one specifically is a question related to rounding.
Consider some examples. Suppose one is trying to represent a number with the following decimal representation in IEEE single format:. Because there are only finitely many real numbers that can be represented exactly in IEEE single format, and not all numbers of the above form are among them, in general it will be impossible to represent such numbers exactly. For example, let. The output from this program should be similar to: y: 8. The difference between the value 8.
The accuracy of representing y in IEEE single format is about 6 to 7 significant digits, or that y has about six significant digits if it is to be represented in IEEE single format. Similarly, the difference between the value 1. The accuracy of representing z in IEEE single format is about 7 to 8 significant digits, or that z has about seven significant digits if it is to be represented in IEEE single format.
Now formulate the question:. Rephrase the question:. The number of significant decimal digits is always between 6 and 9, that is, at least 6 digits, but not more than 9 digits are accurate with the exception of cases when the conversions are exact, when infinitely many digits could be accurate. Conversely, if you convert a binary number in IEEE single format to a decimal number, and then convert it back to binary, generally, you need to use at least 9 decimal digits to ensure that after these two conversions you obtain the number you started from.
For these functions you need conversions between numbers representations in bases 2 and In the Solaris environment, the fundamental routines for base conversion in all languages are contained in the standard C library, libc.
These routines use table-driven algorithms that yield correctly-rounded conversion between any input and output formats. In addition to their accuracy, table-driven algorithms reduce the worst-case times for correctly-rounded base conversion. See section 5. The libc table-driven algorithms round correctly throughout the entire range of single, double, and double extended formats.
See Appendix F for references on base conversion. Particularly good references are Coonen's thesis and Sterbenz's book. Underflow occurs, roughly speaking, when the result of an arithmetic operation is so small that it cannot be stored in its intended destination format without suffering a rounding error that is larger than usual. TABLE shows the underflow thresholds for single, double, and double-extended precision.
The positive subnormal numbers are those numbers between the smallest normal number and zero. Subtracting two positive tiny numbers that are near the smallest normal number might produce a subnormal number. Or, dividing the smallest positive normal number by two produces a subnormal result.
The presence of subnormal numbers provides greater precision to floating-point calculations that involve small numbers, although the subnormal numbers themselves have fewer bits of precision than normal numbers. Producing subnormal numbers rather than returning the answer zero when the mathematically correct result has magnitude less than the smallest positive normal number is known as gradual underflow.
There are several other ways to deal with such underflow results. One way, common in the past, was to flush those results to zero. The mathematicians and computer designers who drafted IEEE Standard considered several alternatives while balancing the desire for a mathematically robust solution with the need to create a standard that could be implemented efficiently.
IEEE Standard chooses gradual underflow as the preferred method for dealing with underflow results. This method amounts to defining two representations for stored values, normal and subnormal. Recall that the IEEE format for a normal floating-point number is:. Only s , e , and f need to be stored to fully specify the number. Because the implicit leading bit of the significand is defined to be 1 for normal numbers, it need not be stored.
Sample size is about Given this level of collinearity, I think it will be difficult to make strong claims about the effects of your predictors at one age vs.
Thanks for your interesting and helpful insights about multicollinearity. I have a question about your second comment. You demonstrated the non-influence of multicollinearity on the interpretation of interaction terms with the fact that centering does not change the p-value for xz although it reduces the multicollinearity.
However, we know that centering can only remove the nonessential but not the essential multicollinearity. My question is — does essential multicollinearity among x, Z, and xz have any consequence? If not, how to demonstrate it? Thank you! And in that situation, centering on the means will not necessarily bring the VIF for the product xz down to acceptable levels. However, at least in my experience, there exist some numbers that you can center on that will bring the VIF for the product to acceptable levels.
In particular, the test for the interaction and the predicted y will be the same whether you center or not. Cohen, Cohen, West, and Aiken , p. Ones is the amount of correlation produced between x and xz by the nonzero means of x and z i. One is the amount of correlation between x and xz produced by skew in x i.
Can centering x on certain numbers not the means reduce the amount of correlation between x and xz caused by skew in x? I really appreciate you writing on this subject. I have a question about a series of multiple linear regression analyses I ran on state averages. Multicollinearity is definitely present. In one instance a variable had a VIF of 8. The VIF of 8. I think another omitted variable is causing the multicollinearity, but someone else says the variables are interacting.
The VIF tells you how much greater the standard error is compared with what it would be if this variable were uncorrelated with all the others. Changes in the model can dramatically change standard errors. A VIF of 2. Reasonable people may differ on this, but I think 10 is too high a cut-off. As it is not a direct output of the data analysis pack, I have ignored VIFs thus far and focussed on finding the strongest drivers, using only 1 or 2 regressors bank holidays.
Given the 2. Also, given continuous shift changes in my regression line as customers shift to different channels, my population size is small probably around Does this small sample size affect the use of VIF and the output predictive ability of the regression line? Hard to answer without more context. On the other hand, the small sample size could make it more important. Hello Professor Allison, I am conducting a research in which correlation of each independent variable with dependent variable is more than.
Multicollinearity is all about correlations among the independent variables although if several variables are highly correlated with the dependent variable, one might expect them to be highly correlated with each other.
Do you have multicollinearity? It all depends on the software you are using. Sir, First of all thanks. Multicollinearity is about correlations among the independent variables. If you have only one independent variable, there is no issue of collinearity. Sir, I am doing a binary logistic regression in the stepwise method. I have selected 2 categorical variables for Block 1 and 2. Only in Block 3 I have selected the covariates of clinical importance. Results show significance for all the covariates selected in Block 3.
However the variables selected in Block 1 and 2 show large SE among their categories. Can I ignore them? The categorical variables selected in Block 1 and 2 are used to describe the stratification in the data based on a criteria of clinical importance.
Allison, I am running a regression where the predictors are: 3 out of 4 indicators representing a nominal variable leaving the 4th as reference , four mean-centered and highly correlated.
I am primarily interested in the simple effects of one of the four unit factors at every one of the four possible reference levels of the other variable. I get VIFs of 12 to almost 27 for the unit factor of interest when the interaction terms are introduced.
Without them, the same VIFs do not exceed 3. Regressing the unit factor on the other predictors, I see that the interaction terms of the same unit factor with the other indicator variables have the largest standardized coefficients around. This is one of those situations where I would not be particularly concerned about the degree of collinearity. What if you are working in HLM, using composite variables, and two of the variables of interest are highly correlated e.
My inclination is to think that this would have implications for how multicollinearity would affect the data, is that right? To check this, calculate level 2 means of level 1 variables and then do your linear regression at level 2, requesting multicollinearity diagnostics. I would like to assess multicollinearity in a case-control study, where I will be using conditional logistic regression to account for matching between cases and controls.
I have one main exposure 3 categories and many other variables I would like to adjust for. When I examine multicollinearity, may I do so in the same way as if I were conducting a cohort study?
Should I account for the matching when assessing multicollinearity? Or I should say…up to 4 controls for each case. The majority have 4 controls, but some have controls per case. For each predictor variable, calculate the cluster-specific mean. Then subtract those means from the original variables to create deviation scores. Estimate a linear regression model with any dependent variable and the deviation scores as predictors.
Request vif statistics. The vifs should be checked for transformed predictors with individual-specific means subtracted. Because multicollinearity is essentially about correlations among the predictors not about the model being estimated. That said, when doing GEE or random effects, you are actually estimating a model that uses a transformation of the predictors. So ideally, VIF would be done on the transformed predictors.
Because when you estimate a fixed effects model, you are essentially using the predictors as deviations from their cluster means. So vif should be calculated on those variables. It can make a big difference. It is of great help for my thesis, many thanks! I use the product to explain causality and not sure if I should identify it as multicollinearity or not. Thank you for your advice on this topic. In the study I am working on, I am examining deviations in the median age at first marriage on several outcomes.
To calculate deviation, I subtract the median age at first marriage from the actual marriage age of the respondent. Age at marriage and the deviation measure are highly correlated 0. Can multicollinearity be ignored in this instance since I would expect the two to be highly correlated as I used age at marriage to create the deviation measure? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Dr. I am currently running a logit model with gender and a five category self reported health variable.
When I test for multicollinearity gender gets a VIF of 8. Since these are substantively important changes in a study interested in gender effects this is definitely making me uncomfortable. Is there something I am missing here or a way to determine which estimates to trust? You say no surprise for the VIF of 8. Certainly gender is known to be correlated with self reported health, but not that highly correlated. As for the interaction, hard to comment without more details.
The VIF did not surprise me in this case since it is inflated only after adding the gender x health interaction. The VIF is very low prior to adding the interaction. As for the interaction- is there any more information I can provide? At the moment is seems that adding interactions with anything other than time to the model produces instability in the coefficients. Right now sometimes the coefficients increase, other times they decrease while standard errors are unsurprisingly inflated.
I would be more willing to accept this as variability in gender being accounted for to some extent by the interaction, but the genderXhealth is not often statistically significant and it produces conflicting results depending on how I attempt to model the relationship.
Model 1 says womanxpoor health has an OR of 2. You need to more carefully interpret the interactions and main effects. When there is a product term in the model, the main effect represents the effect of that variable when the other variable has a value of 0. That can be very different than the original main effect. In most cases, when the interaction is not significant, I recommend deleting it in order to avoid difficulties in interpretation.
Can we include the interaction terms but not the main effects in the models to avoid the multicollinearity problem? I have a few questions in Multicollinearity concept for Logistic Regression. I am dealing with a data where few dummy variables and few numerical variables as independent variables and which leads to the following questions.
What to do if I am working with Logistic Regression. How to detect muticollinearity among independent variables in Logistic regression? Is there any alter native method? Run your model as a linear regression and check VIFs. Nope, same as for other variables. Hard to say. Depends on the situation. I have included age and age2 in a probit model and the VIF values are very high 50 in both age and age2. However, both age and age2 are highly significant. I have one quick question regarding the concept of multicollinearity for multinomial logistic regression.
In my data age and tenure with employer both continuous, though age provided as age bands correlate at 0. If in stata instead of running mlogit, i run regress and ask for the vif the values for the corresponding coefficients are about 1. Besides, categorizing tenure is not necessarily going to make things any better.
No need to center all the variables. I have a quick question regarding 2. We could do a QR factorization for any full rank set of regressors and find some linear combinations of the variables with VIF 1, but we should still have trouble estimating the coefficients of the original regressors if there is multicollinearity in the original data.
If you could help with this, it would be greatly appreciated. Interesting point. Unfortunately, there is no way around that. The outcome of interest is a binary variable and the predictor variable we are most interested in is a categorical variable with 6 levels i. The categorical variable does not have a significant effect alone borderline insignificant with an alpha cut-off of 0. However, it does when an additional numerical variable is included in the model.
VIF values are 5. Why would it be that the categorical variable has a significant effect when the numerical variable is included, but not without the numerical variable? I understand that the VIF values of 2. Is it valid to report the model, including the VIF values for each of the predictors, and include a statement about the effect of multicolinearity in reducing the precision of the estimates, especially for the numerical variable with a VIF of 5.
This can easily happen, especially given the degree of collinearity in your data. Many thanks Dr Allison. Just to clarify for 2 , do you mean the Wald statistic and p-value for coefficients for each of the categorical variables? No, I mean a single Wald test for the null hypothesis that all the coefficients for the categorical variable are 0. Some packages will report this automatically. For others, there are special commands for doing such a test. Such tests are important because they are invariant to the choice of the reference category.
Dear Professor Allison, first of all, thank you for this extremely helpful and insightful blog on the issue. I have a very quick question on multicollinearity in panel fixed effects data. As I understand from your previous reply, the VIFs in case of fixed effects should be calculated on the regressor matrix after applying the within transformation.
May you please point me to a citation for this statement? Thanks for your consideration and kind regards, Andrea. It just makes sense given the nature of fixed effects estimation. Can I ignore this very high collinearity? Thank you very much Grazia. Try changing your reference categories to the ones with the highest frequency counts. What would you recommend as the best way to check for collinearity among them?
First of all, your analysis is very useful for understanding the multicollinearity. However, I have one question which refers to my model. I use dummies with two categories not three. Should I ignore the high VIF of these variables or not? In addition, what is your opinion about condition indeces for detecting multicollinearity? Some people believe that it is better measure than VIF.
Is the collinearity only among the dummies? Try changing the reference category to one that has more cases. Condition indices can be useful in complex situations, but most of the time, I think VIFs do the job. I have a cohort binary variable i. But for this variable, there is no Unknown for those who have value of 0 in the cohort variable i.
I know it has to do with there is no observation in the Unknown category of Smoking in the U. But I am not sure how to fix the problem, should I drop the interaction term? Also I am not sure how to show the interaction variable i. Intercept 6 1 I am not sure if I can use the output giving from SAS in this case? Well, I think you can just use the results as they are. But you would probably do just as well by removing the unknowns before doing the estimation listwise deletion.
Hi Dr Allison, In your text you spoke about a latent variable for multicollinearity but I am havign difficulties understanding the concept. I wanted to know if you would please expand on the topic. Thank you so much for what you are doing here.
I was amazed when I stumbled on this site. This is extraordinary. The latent variable approach is most useful when you have two or more predictor variables that are highly correlated, and you also believe that they are, in some sense, measuring the same underlying construct. You then postulate an unobserved, latent variable depression that causally affects each of the two scales. Using specialized software, like LISREL or Mplus, you estimate a model in which the predictor variable in the regression is the single latent variable, rather than the two separate scales.
You also get estimates of the effects of the latent variable on the two observed indicators. Allison, This article is very helpful, thanks for posting it. I have a question regarding multicollinearity when using lagged principle components is a simple linear regression. I then regress use the 4 PCs and a 3 period lag for the first two PCs against a time series of bank CD rates and the results look good, but the lag terms of course have high VIFs. Can I consider this similar to your situation 2 above?
It sounds like your main goal is to develop a model that will enable you to make good predictions, not to test scientific hypotheses. In that setting, multicollinearity is less of an issue. The question then becomes whether each higher order lag contributes significantly to improving your predictive capability.
This can be evaluated both with p-values and with measures of predictive power. The high VIFs should not be treated as somehow invalidating your model. I am using three lagged variables of dependent variables and three explicit variables, the equation is like this:. I am developing prediction models. X X x x x x z z z z z z a a a a a a However, i have created lagged regression models for lag one, two and three. In such case, the lag one contains 10 regression models, lag two contains 9 and lag three contains 8 regression models which i then average for R-square value for each lag.
When i add explicit lagged variables to the models to make a new model, it show very high VIF of to for a few explicit variables in different models whereas it shows no significant increase in standard error of regression.
Besides lag three model reduces SE significantly. For these models, i am not getting homegenity of residuals. For insatnce , in lag 3 model with 6 degrees of freedom, i am getting 8 regression models, 5 of which pass white test and three fail.
When i am predicting dependent variable on lagged and explicit lagged variables, what shpuld i do? Should i eliminate variables?
I have tried all transformations, tried to remove outliers but the results increase standard errors, reduce R-square, and incraese VIF more if i remove some outliers. I also observe that p-value of explicit variables and most variables is not significant which may be due to increase in degrees of freedom as i read Tabanick , and Davidson and Meckinson. The explicit variable has different unit from x variable. I have tried standardizing of variables to get results but results are same even after standardizing while standardizing reduces R-square.
Should i standardize or not? What should i do? Do you think OLS is good when normality of residuals violates, Durbin Watson test is successful, VIF violates in few lag three models due to explicit lagged variable, p-values do not show variables significant most often.
Standard error of regression and sum of squared residuals is not high say 0. If i am extrapolating any variable or any outlier, it is increasing autocorrelation,VIF and Standard errors. Please reply to my queries at earliest. Others are welcome to make comments or suggestions. Allison, I am doing my thesis with logistic regression.
Should I check multicollinearity if all my dependent and independent variables are dichotomous variables? There are no continuous variables. Is there any other method for my case? Yes, it will reduce the correlation but it will also reduce the variance of the residual so much that the effect on the standard errors will be the same. Why not? Thank you for your answer. The model does not have Z alone by construction. Ridge regression reduces significantly the VIFs of my coefficients, but I need standard errors to assess the statistical significance of my coefficients….
Is there any other methods that can resolve the problem of multicollinearity and provide accurate standard errors? Otherwise, the apparent effects of the interactions could be do the suppressed main effect of Z.
Could be helpful. And by the way, for the model with all three interactions, it would be useful to test the null hypothesis that all three are 0. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, depending on your software. This test would be robust to any multicollinearity. So I mean-centered C, D, E as well, and ran the same model. VIF for A and B reduced to 2. Is it acceptable to mean center this way? I plan to try several regression models on my data. I have a large number of explanetory variables 40 and most of them are oridnal.
The model will be used for predictive purposes and not so much for understanding the effects on my response variable. I would probably use some form of stepwise regression to develop the model, rather than relying on bivariate correlations. If your sample is large e. Thank you, My sample size is very large The point is I am using R and computationally 40 predicters seems too much.
I guess the most reasonable approach is to go over the predictors and find an ecological appropriate subset of variables. This would however correspond to similar effects as going of of correlation, because it is reasonable they correlate and might prove redundant. Then on step 2, it will select the the predictor that has the smallest p-value when added to the model, thereby taking into account any correlation with the first. And so on for the remaining steps.
If you want your overall Type I error rate to be. In your very clear article, you say that the variance is the square of the standard error. Also, you are clear on what the VIF is telling you, but can you say why having an inflated variance of a predictor is a problem? Thank you so much! Well, the standard error is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the coefficient.
The variance of the coefficient is, in fact, the square of its standard error. An inflated variance is a problem because it leads to high p-values and wide confidence intervals. Also, it makes the model more sensitive to mis-specification. Allison, thank you very much for this enlightening article and the multiplicity of comments! However, for high values of Z above median the marginal effect turns positive but insignificant.
Focusing only on the range of significant marginal effects, the negative marginal effect seems theoretically plausible. After mean centering logX, Z and logXZ i. What would you suggest in such a situation? Which of these results would you trust more? As far as I understand a high vif leads to higher standard errors and increases the size of confidence intervals making it more unlikely to show significant results. So if the SE in the uncentered model are actually overestimated but still lead to significant results, how can the results be even less significant in the centered model?
Is it possible that the log-transformation followed by centering might be a source of bias? Mean centering should not change the interpretation of the model, or the significance of an effect at particular values of your variables. Good evening, I am on the first year of an Open University degree in statistics and calculus. Run linear regression in MiniTab 2. Turn on VIF 3.
Use the 4 in 1 plot to graph the individuals 5. Look for unusual observations a. If all VIF 5 start eliminating one at a time You can now trust the p-value. So, after that very convoluted summary to set the scene. What is the connection between VIF and p-value? The standard errors for variables with high VIFs tend to be higher than they would otherwise be. Consequently, for those variables, the p-values tend to be high. Keep in mind, however, that this is only a problem for the variables with high VIFs.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond so many questions over the years. I am running a simple cross sectional estimation using OLS were the variable of interest is an interaction between two variables, one is a country specific characteristic and the other is an industry specific characteristic. The depended variables is US imports by country and industry. I would like to run this estimation including country fixed effects and industry fixed effects.
However, this approach produces a high multicollinearity in the interaction term. Interesting problem. Thank you for a great article. Much has been said by many about how collinearity affects estimation of regression coefficients.
My question is how collinearity may impact on prediction of responses which seems less touched. Furthermore, does elimination of collinearity, if successfully done, help with the prediction? Is there a good reference on this topic? Maybe other readers can suggest something. Please, could you suggest me in which book can I find it for report it cited?
Jeffrey Wooldridge Introductory Econometrics, 5th ed. Allison will you please tell me what is the acceptable limit of multicolleniarity between two independent variables. Can I ask why this advice is so common, whereas you would suggest that this collinearity is not an issue? Well, centering can be useful in evaluating the impact of lower-order terms.
I have followed your site and your posts are remarkably helpful and insightful to us, your followers. I am currently working on data analysis where 2 two-way and 1 three-way interaction terms were used.
It is also not a very large observation 42 but on panel data structure of 6 cross sections and 7 longitudinal units. The VIF for the interaction terms turned out quiet high even after centering the data.
Should they be ignored? A paper by Donald F. Burrill, suggested some methods for addressing the observed multicollinearity, does one really need to bother to correct it? The data structure is just too unusual for me to make any confident suggestion. Allison, I am running a regression that has high order interactions 2-, 3-ways.
I also need to impute missing values before running this analysis. I am using multiple imputation. It is said that when you do multiple imputation, your model must include all your analytic variables, which means that my imputation model must include all the interaction terms 2-, 3-ways.
As you can imagine, the VIFs of my imputation model are out of roof for the terms involved in interactions no amount of transformations can do anything about this. My concern at this time is the collinearity in the multiple imputation process. Could I ever make a justification for not including them by saying that my coefficient estimates for interaction terms are downward biased due to exclusion of the interaction terms in MI?
When I imputed without including the interactions and ran the analysis, I still obtained quite a bit of statistical significant coeff. Thank you in advance for any kind of suggestion. Collinearity for an imputation model is generally much less serious a problem than for the analysis model. What happens if try to do the multiple imputation with the interactions?
My team is validating the credit risk default model. This means that the standard error for the coefficient of that predictor variable is times as large as it would be if that predictor variable were uncorrelated with the other predictor variables. The variables represent the age of loan and its transformations to account for maturation. For 2nd and 3rd variables we are using a standard cubic age splines in order to best approximate each of the non-linear segments defined by the selected knots.
OK, my question is: do you need something this complicated to represent the nonlinearity. I did not built that model, but from review perspective complexity was not justified.
Am I reading your response correctly? Collinearity is primarily a concern when you are trying to separate out the effects of two variables.
Here you are trying to model a single variable with multiple terms. My concern is whether you need a model of this complexity to adequately represent the nonlinear effect of the variable. I am a PhD student working on a sociolinguistic variation research. I used to have binary dependent variable for analysis and worked fine. Now, I have a multinominal dependent variable 5 categorical variables. Initially, I thought glm can only use for binary data, so I created dummy variables to make 5 binary dep var.
The results report different VIF values and some showed big multicollinearity problem, but not all. Later, I learnt that glm can deal with multinominal dependent variable. So, I calculated the VIF again and the problem was not as big as some of those in the earlier calculation. Would this be something I need to consider when choosing which VIF to report? I usually just do it within a linear regression framework. Is it a cause of concern? If so, how can one handle it? But it may mean that you have low power to test the three-way interaction.
Hi everyone. I am finalizing my results for my paper. To prove it use: the matrix norm e. Thanks for the great article and discussion! Could you state that your coefficient is inflated and thus a conservative estimate of the effect of x on y? So, in that sense, the result is conservative. However, the thing to be cautious about is that collinearity makes your results more sensitive to specification errors, such as non-linearities or interactions that are not properly specified.
So you still need to be more tentative about interpreting results when your predictors of interest have high VIFs. It would be desirable to explore alternative specifications. Hi Paul, Thank you for looking at my query. I am running the following regression. When I run the above regression I get all the estimates to be significant.
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