Correlation between variables

yael — Thu, 04 May 2017 07:55:57 GMT

Hello,

I am asking for your advice,

I have two independent variables with correlation of 0.5. The variables are as follows:

(1) Family ownership, which refers to the family % in ownership

(2) Founder, dummy variable with 1/0 if the manager is the founder

The correlation is 0.5 as in some firms this is the same person. If I want to check the "PURE" impact of each variable on the dependent variable, what you suggest me to do? (PURE means, for example, the real impact of being founder w/o the ownership too).

My first idea (that also checked) was to run the regression of founder impact only between similar ownship groups, but in this way I am loosing a lot of data that is not used and might help.

Can you please give any clue how to handle with it?

Thanks a lot!

Re: Correlation between variables

PaigeMiller — Thu, 04 May 2017 12:11:47 GMT

If I want to check the "PURE" impact of each variable on the dependent variable, what you suggest me to do? (PURE means, for example, the real impact of being founder w/o the ownership too).

In my opinion, this cannot be estimated from the correlated data you have. In other words, the question is meaningless, and any attempts to answer the question exactly as asked are a waste of time.

The best you can do is come up with a model that involves both variables predicting the dependent variable, and not try to determine any "pure" impact.

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