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.
2004 â Indian Ocean Earthquake (Tsunami) In the year 2004, another great disaster in the world took place in the Indian Ocean known as Tsunami. It was an earthquake in the undersea killing ample amount of people and communities all over. The magnitude was around 9.0 and the death count was 230,000.