If your beta coefficients are on different scales: like you want to know whether temperature or pressure are affecting your bread baking more,
Is the way to do this using Beta coefficients calculated as Beta=beta*SDx/SDy (SDx=standard deviation of each x) (SDy=standard deviation of the dependant variable) It seems like the Beta coefficients are rarely cited in studies and it seems to me worthless to know beta (small "b") as you are not allowed to compare them as they are on different scales. For example, a standardized regression equation becomes: Bread Making Success=0.5Temperature+0.8Pressure would mean that a standard deviation change in pressure will increase your success. Is there a way of converting this standardized coefficient to a "correlation coefficient" on a scale of -1 to +1) It would be useful to do this as you want to know the correlation coefficient of temperature after factoring out pressure. ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================