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Dear Allstat

Apologies if this has been mentioned previously.

Is there a consensus of view that it is preferable to use the term 'multivariable' to describe models with a single outcome  and multiple predictors, rather than the term 'multivariate'? Or does 'multivariable' introduce more confusion than it's worth?

See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518362/ for example, for background.

Trevor Lambert
NDPH, Oxford University

 

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