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Modern measurement techniques allow researchers to gather ever more data in less time. In many cases, however, the primary or raw data have to be further analyzed, be it for the verification of a ...

The main purpose of this paper is to clarify relations and distinctions between several approaches suggested in the statistical literature for analysing structures in correlation matrices, i.e. of ...

Goodness-of-fit statistics for general multiple-linear-regression equations are reviewed for the case of replicated responses. A modification of the coefficient of determination is recommended. This ...