Thus, practitioners must recognize that there are other important factors that explain significant variance in achievement and global ability.

To what extent do these patient-variables, age, educational level, dyspnea intensity, symptom distress, and functional status, explain variance in the patient's perceived quality of life?

Self-compassion explained significant additional variance in well-being over the above maternal support.

To what extent do these caregiver-variables, age, educational level, dyspnea intensity, symptom distress, and mastery, explain variance in the caregiver's perceived quality of life.

"Explained variance" is routinely used in principal component analysis.

We carried out a PCA with group-averaged data and two components (72.1% explained variance).

Duff was primarily interested in establishing the cognitive traits that explained variance in people's accomplishments.

A second PCA was carried out on the group-averaged data using the original cell-cycle classification with two components (94.4% explained variance).

We carried out PCA for group-averaged data with two components (54.8% explained variance).

A correlation of .40 is not that small of a correlation and can explain more variance than most people think.