The extent to which depression and obesity are causally related remains to be determined. We used intergenerational data on mother–offspring pairs in an instrumental variable analysis to examine ...

Variable costs help determine pricing. A company strives to competitively price its goods to recover the cost of manufacturing them. By performing variable cost analysis, the company can establish ...

Understanding Manifest Variable . Statisticians use several analysis techniques when examining manifest variables and latent variables. The four most frequently used models are factor analysis, ...

Instrumental Variable Analysis Characteristics of Included Studies (n = 65) Reporting of Assumptions. The reporting and testing of the three IV assumptions were analyzed. Only 20 studies were ...

Methods matter: instrumental variable analysis may be a complementary approach to intention-to-treat analysis and as treated analysis when analysing data from sports injury trials. Br J Sports Med ...

Example 59.1: Standardization of Variables in Cluster Analysis To illustrate the effect of standardization in cluster analysis, this example uses the Fish data set described in the "Getting Started" ...

In a new feature, Billboard analyzed sales after the introduction of variable pricing and found that unit sales had slightly decreased but overall spending at retail and net revenue to labels had ...

The 80/20 rule says 80 percent of your business comes from 20 percent of your customers. This might not be a hard and fast rule. But the customer analysis variable can help you determine which of ...