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The incompatibility of achieving a fully specified linear model with assuming that residual dependent-variable variance is random

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  • Merton Krause

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The residual dependent-variable variance in experiments is not “random error”, as it is often assumed to be, but merely “unaccounted for variance”, because what is random is inexplicable in terms of any possible set of independent-variables and this is something that ultimately is only empirically determinable. So, if there is any unaccounted for dependent-variable variance, an experiment’s set of independent-variables is certainly under-specified and perhaps mis-specified because of the confounding of variables included in this set by causally relevant variables not included in the set. Thus, the proper first empirical test of any linear model is whether it leaves any residual dependent-variable variance, and if it does then none of its independent variables can yet logically justifiably be claimed to predict or causally explain any of the dependent-variable variance whatsoever. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

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  • Merton Krause, 2013. "The incompatibility of achieving a fully specified linear model with assuming that residual dependent-variable variance is random," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 47(6), pages 3201-3204, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:qualqt:v:47:y:2013:i:6:p:3201-3204
    DOI: 10.1007/s11135-012-9712-5
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    1. Merton S. Krause, 2019. "Replication and preregistration," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(5), pages 2647-2652, September.

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