Mean centering helps alleviate “micro” but not “macro” multicollinearity

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Behavior Research Methods

• Publication date

  2015-07-07

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.3758/s13428-015-0624-xPMID 26148824
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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