Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 47, No. 2 (1998), pp. 377-383 (7 pages) In medical and social surveys a large number of multiply correlated explanatory ...

You don't need a crystal ball to tell you what is going to happen next in the economy. You need a statistical model. A new method can help researchers determine which economic variables they should ...

This refers to any bias in a predictive model which is the result of the omission of variables that are relevant to the outcome. The omission of a relevant variable can, among other things, lead to ...