[R] Terminology: Multiple Regression versus multivariate Reg

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
> 
>> There is an unfortunate (in my view) tendency for people to use
>> "multivariate regression" whden talking about what I call "multiple
>> regression" above (i.e. more than 1 independent variable). I think
>> this should be reserved for regression where the left-hand side is
>> multivariate.
>>
>> But maybe I'm in a minority ...
> 
> If so, a minority of at least two...
> 
> Part of the problem is that people will often (for better or worse)
> screen a set of predictors by "univariate regression", which should
> probably be the rather less catchy "single-predictor regression". (As
> far as I remember, SPSS, "canonicalizes" the term in its menu system.)
> 

Another approach (maybe more correct?) that I have seen in some papers, 
is to use "multivariable regression" for more than one predictors, and 
"univariable regression" for just a single one.


Best,
Dimitris

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