A Caution Regarding Rules of Thumb for Variance Inflation Factors

By Robert M. O’Brien. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Probability

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A More Fine-Grained Measure of Students' Acceptance of Evolution: Development of the Inventory of Student Evolution Acceptance—I-SEA (2012, methodology): “The correlation coefficients reflect the relationships between our subscales, but were below the threshold used to determine overly collinear subscales (Lewis-Beck, 1980; O’Brien, 2007).”
Acquisitions by emerging market multinationals: Implications for firm performance (2014, background): “…of the main model, while the other columns report the interactions between the tangible 15 The highest VIF of this specification is 6.86 and is due to the variable Target Firms’ Tangible Resources, while the average VIF is 2.53, thus both values are below the threshold of 10 (O’Brien, 2007).”
Spatial prediction of landslide susceptibility by combining evidential belief function, logistic regression and logistic model tree (2019, background): “Result of the multicollinearity shows that the TOL of STI and SPI is less than 0.2 and their VIF is more than 5 (Table 3), and it is better to remove these two factors before landslide susceptibility modelling (O’brien 2007; Chen et al. 2018e).”
An area-based nonparametric spatial point pattern test: The test, its applications, and the future (2016, background): “O’Brien (2007) states that variance inflation factors ranging from 5 to 10 (and greater, of course) may be cause for concern.”
COVID-19, frontline hotel employees’ perceived job insecurity and emotional exhaustion: Does trade union support matter? (2021, background): “This test revealed that the largest VIF in the model was 1.07, substantially below the cut-off value of 10.0 (O’Brien, 2007); thus, multicollinearity was not a severe issue in this study.”
Understanding Collaborative Consumption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior with Value-Based Personal Norms (2017, neutral): “…recommended boundaries (average variance extracted[.50, maximum shared variance\ average variance extracted, average shared variance\ average variance extracted; variance inflation factors \3; D standardized regression weights\.20) (Fornell and Larcker 1981; O’brien 2007; Podsakoff et al. 2003).”
Underlying Structure of Ruminative Thinking: Factor Analysis of the Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire (2013, background): “Factor intercorrelations were \.90 (see Tabachnick and Fidell 2007) and the variance inflation factor less than 10 (for discussion see O’Brien 2007) which suggests that, although highly correlated in some cases, that there is no multicollinearity.”
Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being (2014, background): “Though the two constructs were highly correlated, the tolerance levels were above 0.20 and the variance inflation factors were below 5.00 (O’Brien, 2007)dthis indicates that both variables can be both entered into regression models.”
The Impact of Health-Oriented Leadership on Follower Health: Development and Test of a New Instrument Measuring Health-Promoting Leadership (2014, background): “42) and yielded no signs of severe multicollinearity (O’Brian, 2007).”