The goldilocks dilemma: Impacts of multicollinearity-A comparison of simple linear regression, multiple regression, and ordered variable regression models

Abstract

A common consideration concerning the application of multiple linear regression is the lack of independence among predictors (multicollinearity). The main purpose of this study is to introduce an alternative method of regression originally outlined by Woolf (1951) that eliminates the relatedness between the predictors in a multiple predictor setting.