Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or fact of being collinear, that is, costraight.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable  The condition of being 
collinear  - noun countable The extent to which something is collinear
 
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Not only do the deletions disrupt collinearity but they also obscure intersections and symmetries.
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Kosslyn identifies the problems with the right column pictures as follows:Not only do the deletions disrupt collinearity but they also obscure intersections and symmetries.
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Kosslyn identifies the problems with the right column pictures as follows:Not only do the deletions disrupt collinearity but they also obscure intersections and symmetries.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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Not only do the deletions disrupt collinearity but they also obscure intersections and symmetries.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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Also, if the regressors are highly correlated the collinearity problem Steve alluded to then that could explain the instability of the regression coefficients.
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The point about collinearity is probably still true, though.
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Test for harmful collinearity among predictor variables used in modeling global temperature.
Think Progress » Virginia Asks Global Warming Skeptic To Stop Calling Himself ‘State Climatologist’ 2006
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A remarkable related feature is that the empirical lack of collinearity in the MBH network.
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Because there is so little actual signal in the data, there is surprisingly low collinearity in the regressors and the regression is not as far away as all that from a multiple linear regression of temperature on 22-112 proxies over a calibration period of 79 years.
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Most multivariate methods are concerned about collinearity.
 
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