Negative correlation but positive beta value
$begingroup$
I got a negative correlation (Pearson correlation) between two variables but a positive beta coefficient of one variable predicting the other in multiple hierarchical linear regression. Is it acceptable? Please justify it with research evidence and literature
regression correlation
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
$endgroup$
add a comment |
$begingroup$
I got a negative correlation (Pearson correlation) between two variables but a positive beta coefficient of one variable predicting the other in multiple hierarchical linear regression. Is it acceptable? Please justify it with research evidence and literature
regression correlation
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
$endgroup$
1
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
add a comment |
$begingroup$
I got a negative correlation (Pearson correlation) between two variables but a positive beta coefficient of one variable predicting the other in multiple hierarchical linear regression. Is it acceptable? Please justify it with research evidence and literature
regression correlation
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
$endgroup$
I got a negative correlation (Pearson correlation) between two variables but a positive beta coefficient of one variable predicting the other in multiple hierarchical linear regression. Is it acceptable? Please justify it with research evidence and literature
regression correlation
regression correlation
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
edited 2 days ago
Ferdi
3,86742355
3,86742355
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
asked 2 days ago
Aiman RahimAiman Rahim
61
61
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
New contributor
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.
1
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
add a comment |
1
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
1
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
1
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
$begingroup$
There is no reason that this is not possible. It follows from the nature of multiple regression, which controls for variables, which correlation does not do. See any decent book on multiple regression.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
$endgroup$
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
return StackExchange.using("mathjaxEditing", function () {
StackExchange.MarkdownEditor.creationCallbacks.add(function (editor, postfix) {
StackExchange.mathjaxEditing.prepareWmdForMathJax(editor, postfix, [["$", "$"], ["\\(","\\)"]]);
});
});
}, "mathjax-editing");
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "65"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstats.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f399299%2fnegative-correlation-but-positive-beta-value%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
$begingroup$
There is no reason that this is not possible. It follows from the nature of multiple regression, which controls for variables, which correlation does not do. See any decent book on multiple regression.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
$endgroup$
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
There is no reason that this is not possible. It follows from the nature of multiple regression, which controls for variables, which correlation does not do. See any decent book on multiple regression.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
$endgroup$
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
There is no reason that this is not possible. It follows from the nature of multiple regression, which controls for variables, which correlation does not do. See any decent book on multiple regression.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
$endgroup$
There is no reason that this is not possible. It follows from the nature of multiple regression, which controls for variables, which correlation does not do. See any decent book on multiple regression.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
answered 2 days ago
Peter Flom♦Peter Flom
76.4k11107212
76.4k11107212
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
add a comment |
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
$begingroup$
Thank you for the helpful insight
$endgroup$
– Aiman Rahim
2 days ago
add a comment |
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Aiman Rahim is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.
Thanks for contributing an answer to Cross Validated!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
Use MathJax to format equations. MathJax reference.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstats.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f399299%2fnegative-correlation-but-positive-beta-value%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
1
$begingroup$
In addition to the worthy answer by @PeterFlom, you might find my answer to this question illuminating: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/89547/…
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday
1
$begingroup$
Also: Welcome to CV!
$endgroup$
– Alexis
yesterday