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3 Post author: Kevin 12 January 2011 06:51AM

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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 12 January 2011 06:16:09PM *  0 points [-]

I interpreted this comment as saying that they should test whether the coefficients are equal to 0 before interpreting them. There's evidence that they did this if you look at the "if you're into algebra" sidebar on the right - they dropped the m3 variable because it had a large p-value.

Is that what you were getting at?

edit: typo