MULTICOLLINEARITY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does multicollinearity mean? 

• MULTICOLLINEARITY (noun)
  The noun MULTICOLLINEARITY has 1 sense:

1. a case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated

  Familiarity information: MULTICOLLINEARITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTICOLLINEARITY (noun)

Meaning:

A case of multiple regression in which the predictor variables are themselves highly correlated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("multicollinearity" is a kind of...):

multiple correlation; multiple regression (a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)