Standardized coefficient

In statistics, standardized (regression) coefficients, also called beta coefficients or beta weights, are the estimates resulting from a regression analysis where the underlying data have been standardized so that the variances of dependent and independent variables are equal to 1.[1] Therefore, standardized coefficients are unitless and refer to how many standard deviations a dependent variable will change, per standard deviation increase in the predictor variable.

  1. ^ Menard, S. (2004), "Standardized regression coefficients", in Lewis-Beck, M.S.; Bryman, A.; Liao, T.F. (eds.), The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications, pp. 1069–1070, doi:10.4135/9781412950589.n959, ISBN 9780761923633