I liked this article, and it nicely demonstrates the concept of âcontrolling for other variablesâ (IQ, career, income, age, etc) in order to best isolate the true relationship between just the 2 variables in question.t also should be noted that controling for other variables does only make sense when the explanatory variables are moderately correlated (collinearity). In the aforementioned example, the Product-Moment correlation between exposure and covariate is 0.50, i.e. 2.
In Indonesia, at least 3,000 of the dead were in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, and officials said the death toll was likely to rise. Communication with many coastal areas was impossible, and the extent of the damage there remained uncertain.
At Least 25,000 Die in Tsunami Paul Watson and Michael Muskal Times Staff Writers MADRAS, India â The death toll from a massive undersea earthquake that triggered a wall of water crashing through Asia climbed to 25,000 today as officials braced for more deaths and a Herculean cleanup.