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Empirical Research in Software Engineering
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Empirical Research in Software Engineering

by Ruchika Malhotra
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
498 pages
18h 20m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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222 Empirical Research in Software Engineering
6.2.1.1 Univariate Analysis
The univariate analysis is done to nd the individual effect of each independent variable
on the dependent variable. One of the purposes of univariate analysis is to screen out
the independent variables that are not signicantly related to the dependent variables.
For example, in regression analysis, only the independent variables that are signicant at
0.05signicance level may be considered in subsequent model prediction using multivari-
ate analysis. The primary goal is to preselect the independent variables for multivariate
analysis that seems to be useful predictors. The choice of methods in the univariate analy-
sis depends on the type of dependent variables being ...
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