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There are many times in the physical sciences when you want to predict a criterion, Y, but you want to find out if you can develop a better prediction model by using several predictors in combination (e.g. X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , etc.) instead of a single predictor, X.
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Quirk, T.J., Quirk, M., Horton, H. (2013). Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression. In: Excel 2010 for Physical Sciences Statistics. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00630-7_7
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