The following patterns of results are based on the North American Survey of mediation centres. The multiple regression is based on determining what explains the annual rate of referral of disputes to mediation centres. Thus, the dependent variable is the number of referrals over a year to each mediation centre. The independent variables and corresponding labels are:
• whether the mediation centre is community-based (0) or system-based (1), TYPE
• the percent of referrals from the local police department, POLICE
• the size of the community in population, SIZE
• the number of constables per 1000 population in the community, CONSTABLE
• Country: Canada (O) USA (1), COUNTRY
PATTERN A B C D E Variable ß ß ß ß ß TYPE .02 .02 .02 .50 .05 POLICE .01 .32 .10 .20 .10 SIZE .40 .21 .05 .10 .10 CONSTABLE .20 .80 .05 .15 .10 COUNTRY .30 .02 .02 .25 .50 R2 .45 .90 .07 .40 .40
Consider the following patterns of ß weights.
The following patterns of results are based on the North American Survey of mediation centres. The multiple regression is based on determining what explains the annual rate of referral of disputes to mediation centres. Thus, the dependent variable is the number of referrals over a year to each mediation centre. The independent variables and corresponding labels are:
• whether the mediation centre is community-based (0) or system-based (1), TYPE
• the percent of referrals from the local police department, POLICE
• the size of the community in population, SIZE
• the number of constables per 1000 population in the community, CONSTABLE
• Country: Canada (O) USA (1), COUNTRY
PATTERN A B C D E Variable ß ß ß ß ß TYPE .02 .02 .02 .50 .05 POLICE .01 .32 .10 .20 .10 SIZE .40 .21 .05 .10 .10 CONSTABLE .20 .80 .05 .15 .10 COUNTRY .30 .02 .02 .25 .50 R2 .45 .90 .07 .40 .40
Consider the following patterns of ß weights….





