beta weight

[′bād·ə ‚wāt]

(statistics)

beta coefficient

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The beta weight for work locus of control was significant at .38 (p < .001).

Politics and justice: a mediated moderation model

The highest Beta weight was .41 (instructional), and was significant at the p<.001 level.

Students' attitudes toward online interaction

In Expt 2 the only significant beta weight in the MLRAs were between non-verbal intelligence and the audio-alone condition.

Bisensory augmentation: A speechreading advantage when speech is clearly audible and intact

The only significant beta weight produced was for the variable of political ideology with more liberal respondents more worried about environmental problems such as pollution of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs; contamination of soil, and the loss of natural habitat for wildlife.

Local elected officials and environmental policy: does rural matter anymore?

The only other variable for which a beta weight was found to be statistically significant had a structure coefficient that suggested very little in the way of a unique contribution to the model (-.12).

Utility of team indices for predicting end of season ranking in two national polls

The beta weight indicated that, as maternal depressive affect increases from year i to year 2, child conduct problems increase.

Change in maternal depressive mood: unique contributions to adolescent functioning over time

For viewers who dislike the format or frequency of TV advertising, dislike of TV advertising increases with income (beta weight for interaction = -.07, p < .05).

Identifying who dislikes television advertising: not by demographics alone

Examination of beta weights shows strong negative betas for the ethnic variables, while the individual's attitude toward females' smoking of cigarettes was the most powerful positive beta weight (Table 2).

Multiple correlates of cigarette use among high school students

Support for the hypothesis is found if the beta weight is negative and the confidence interval around the beta weight does not include zero (a 90% confidence interval was used due to the small sample size).

Human resource safety practices and employee injuries

Attitude achieved a beta weight of .601 (p value of less than .001), norm achieved a non-significant beta weight of .166 (p value of .067).