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.
Dutch government apologises for massacre of at least 150 people in the village of Rawagede, on the island of Java, in 1947, during Indonesia's war of independence. 2012 March - Court sentences Islamist militant Pepi Fernando to 18 years in prison for a parcel-bombing campaign targeting Muslim leaders and police.