How to Standardize Regression Coefficients

1 August 1994

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician

Vol. 48 (3) , 209-213
https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1994.10476059

Abstract

In many regression studies, there is an ambition to compare the relative importance of different variables. One measure frequently used is standardized regression coefficients. The present article reveals an inconsistency in the definition of the standardized coefficients and demonstrates that if they were correctly defined, a comparison between standardized coefficients would be similar to comparing t values.

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