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collinearity

collinearity Collinearity is a situation in which measured variables are so strongly related that their unique associations become hard to separate in a statistical model.

Collinearity is a situation in which measured variables are so strongly related that their unique associations become hard to separate in a statistical model. In this study context, high collinearity was taken as a sign of possible construct overlap and a reason to interpret unexpected coefficients cautiously.