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- From: mcclella@yertle.Colorado.EDU (Gary McClelland)
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- Subject: Re: Adjusted r-squared as analogous to sample variance estimator
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.215259.10641@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 21:52:59 GMT
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- mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU writes:
-
- >After following the thread about the approporiate divisor for the
- >sample variance, and the comments about the misconceptions and
- >mistakes concerning it that are propogated in introductory textbooks,
- >I was struck by an inconsistency. While most intro. books make
- >considerable noise about the need to use n-1 to make the sample
- >variance an unbiased estimator, virtually none of them consider
- >the analogous correction to make the sample r-squared an unbiased
- >estimator of the population parameter.
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- >Does anyone have any explanation for this inconsistency, other
- >than simple error on the part of textbook writers?
-
- You just haven't been reading the right books! Here are two books which
- treat the subject of "shrunken" or "adjusted" R-sq.
-
- Cohen, J., & Cohen, P. (1983). Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation
- Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. (2nd ed.) Lawrence Erlbaum.
- (see pp 105-107).
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- Judd, C.M., & McClelland, G.H. (1989). Data Analysis: A Model Comparison
- Approach. HBJ. (see Chapter 5; this book incidentally gives a much
- more coherent, intuitive explanation of both n-1 and the R-sq adjustment
- without ever using the phrase "degrees of freedom.")
-
- gary mcclelland
- univ of colorado
- mcclella@yertle.colorado.edu
-