THE USE OF THE SHORT-CUT GRAPHIC METHOD OF MULTIPLE CORRELATION.

Malenbaum, Wilfred; Black, John D.

The article reports that the essential task in this text is to explore some difficulties that have arisen in the use of the method of correlation analysis, which has commonly been called the short-cut graphic method. Apparently the method in the present state of its development, or at least in the understanding of it by many who use it, lends itself to considerable misuse. It does not seem possible otherwise to account for the results sometimes obtained from its application; or to see how workers in the United States Department of Agriculture, to cite an example, can use the method as much as they do and still disagree so much as to procedures and conclusions. The writers of this article do not consider themselves especially competent to deal with this problem. A number of workers in the public service have used the graphic short-cut method much more than they, and have a better comprehension of the reasons for the difficulties mentioned; but for one reason or another they have not chosen to write or even speak freely in public about them.

UNITED States; GRAPHIC methods in statistics; GRAPHIC methods; STATISTICAL correlation; MATHEMATICAL statistics; UNITED States. Dept. of Agriculture

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1937, Vol 52, Issue 1, p66

0033-5533

Academic Journal

10.2307/1884500