Test of Multicollinearity Among Some Selected Diseases: Case Study of Zonal Hospital Idah , Kogi State (1994 – 2013)
Keywords:
significance, Multicollinearity, diseases, Zonal Hospital Idah, exogenous variablesAbstract
This work is on test of Multicollinearity among some selected diseases, a case study of Zonal Hospital Idah – Kogi State (1994 - 2013). It was carried out in other to test for Multicollinearity in a model with three exogenous variables. Data on death and some of its causes (malaria, typhoid and anemia) were collected for the period of twenty years. The analysis was carried out using the Farrar-Glauber test of Multicollinearity. The results of the analysis revealed that there is presence of Multicollinearity in the model when tested at the 5% level of significance.