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delta
Updated on 04/19/2018
(symbol: ∆)
n.
a measure of the change in a
parameter
. For example, Δ
R
2
indicates how much of the change in
R
2
(the
coefficient of multiple determination
) was caused or explained by a given step (e.g., adding a specific variable to an analysis).
see Glass’s D.
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