Not explaining the variation is a good thing!
But neither of these factors came close to explaining the variation in class performance.
For example, Doige, Karolyi, and Stulz (2007) find that country characteristics are a bigger factor than firm attributes in explaining the variation in observed firm-level governance arrangements.
Both preferences/attitudes and the built environment itself played a more prominent role in explaining the variation in non-motorized travel than for auto and transit travel.
Objective: Our aim was to assess this value in clinical studies, and to identify factors explaining the variation in the number of identified causes.
Relative altitude was found to be superior to site altitude in explaining the variation of average [O3] and DOR in the landscape.
Multivariate analysis (dbRDA) revealed that Haploops density was by far the factor explaining the variation in species composition of benthic communities.
The differences in the minimum energy chain conformation of symmetrically and asymmetrically substituted bisphenol-A polyarylate chains help in explaining the variation in packing density and permeation properties.
A field research conducted in three project teams of a software firm supports the relevance of knowledge complexity in explaining the variation of management control systems.
Our analyses contribute to the CSR literature by providing the first empirical study on the role of unobserved managerial heterogeneity in explaining the variation in CSR scores across firms.
A comparison of different predictor sets in our spatial additive logistic regression models for silver fir, common rowan and European beech revealed that management activities and space are most important in explaining the variation in browsing level.
