Fig 1.
Traditional Venn diagram depicting two correlated variables (r1y = .50 or −.50).
Fig 2.
Traditional Venn diagram for two independent variables and one dependent variable: r12 = .70 or −.70, r2y = 0, and r1y = .40 or −.40.
Fig 3.
Modified Venn diagram for two independent variables and one dependent variable: r12 = ±.70, r2y = 0, and r1y = ±.40.
Fig 4.
Modified Venn diagram for k independent variables and one dependent variable: Based on data in Table 1.
Table 1.
Correlation matrix for five independent variables and one dependent variable.
Table 2.
Analysis of variance of regression.