A stepwise regression procedure applied to an international production study - a multiple inference solution

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to apply a certain procedure for stepwise regression analysis to a problem included in a study of integrated international production. The question, which factors are important for the transnational company's trade behaviour in certain respects, have been analysed by means of traditional methods. Hence the more interesting findings on the subject are likely to be reported already and the results here are only to be regarded as supplementary ones. Comparisons between old and new outcomes, and to some extent the interpretations of them, is however one point here.