id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt qb98mc90825 Daniel B. McArtor Extending a Distance-Based Approach to Multivariate Multiple Regression 1904 .txt text/plain 198 5 24 MDMR, however, is not commonly used in the social sciences, and this is partially due to three key issues that are addressed in this dissertation: (1) the null distribution of the MDMR test statistic is unknown, so the computation of p-values is currently contingent upon permutation tests that can be computationally infeasible, (2) the MDMR framework does not provide a useful measure of effect size for specific outcome variables, and (3) the MDMR framework relies on the assumption of independent observations. The freedom to choose any distance metric to quantify the dissimilarity between these response profiles can result in the relaxation of several assumptions that are commonly required to conduct multivariate association tests. cache/qb98mc90825.txt txt/qb98mc90825.txt