Re: Negative Adjusted R Square is a "good" thing?

Posted by cynicalflyer on Feb 11, 2014; 3:14pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Negative-Adjusted-R-Square-is-a-good-thing-tp5724399p5724443.html

Thanks to you all. I reduced the 37 indicators down to 5 based on literature + my judgment and ran the regressions; I still get all negative Adjusted R Squares vs. composite scores and vs. salient items. My methodologist has told me that the committee will likely rescind it prior approval of the proposal and that the only reason for getting a negative adjusted R square is data error (read: I screwed up). A proquest search of all dissertations finds only like 12 that had negative adjusted R squares. Have to start over.