While doing the analysis, I did a simple regression and check out that some variables have low p-val

Mara Cook

Mara Cook

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2022-06-25

While doing the analysis, I did a simple regression and check out that some variables have low p-value. Therefore I thought they are influential variables for dependent variable.
So I did Multiple regression with influential variables, but p-values become not influentially low and less significant (less descriptive). Is this case some kind of multicolinearity? I've heard a lot about the opposite result (the more variable added, the insignificant variable becomes more descriptive), but I'm not sure about this case.

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Bornejecbo

Bornejecbo

Beginner2022-06-26Added 19 answers

Without seeing that data - no one can tell you why this happens. Multicolinearity is indeed a possible cause. If these variable are continuous then you can check the VIF factor for each one of them. If indeed it caused by multicolinerity, then possible remedies is adding up variables, e.g., using principle components instead of the original explanatory variables or simply dropping the problematic variables.

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