It can be broadly separated into descriptive and explanatory. The complete text of the explanatory tablet is detailed below. The following are references cited in order to link to explanatory information. Thus, the Old Institutionalism was unhelpful for comparative research and explanatory theory. Insert a space before the opening parenthesis of the explanatory parenthetical. He characterized it as guessing and as inference to an explanatory hypothesis. A clear distinction is made between explanatory and constitutive approaches when classifying international relations theories. Theories of optimism include dispositional models, and models of explanatory style. This is sufficient to determine which explanatory variables affect the response variable(s) of interest. Otherwise, the null hypothesis of no explanatory power is accepted. In statistics, collinearity refers to a linear relationship between two explanatory variables. This scheme has the advantage that it retains the information in the explanatory variables. Both situations produce the same value for "Y" regardless of settings of explanatory variables. The case of one explanatory variable is called simple linear regression. Also, the range of the explanatory variables defines the information available from them.