10.1177/1094428104267049ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODSBudescu, Azen / DOMINANCE ANALYSIS Beyond Global Measures of Relative Importance: Some Insights From Dominance Analysis

The five articles in this special issue of Organizational Research Methods focus on various measures of global importance that rank and scale all p predictors in a multiple regression equation and compare their relative merits using a variety of real and simulated data sets. In this commentary, the authors describe several spe-cial features of dominance analysis that allow researchers to study more specific and narrowly focused aspects of relative importance. These analyses offer new in-sights into the pattern of importance that are not provided by any of the global measures of importance