CAUSALITY, MEASUREMENT ERROR AND MULTICO
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JAMES V. ZIDEK; HUBERT WONG; NHU D. LE; RICK BURNETT
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper demonstrates that measurement error can conspire with multicollinearity among explanatory variables to mislead an investigator. A causal variable measured with error may be overlooked and its significance transferred to a surrogate. The latter's significance can then be entirely spurious,