Multicollinearity is a(n)

A  statistical technique that analyzes the linear relationship between a dependent variable and multiple independent variables by estimating coefficients for the equation for a straight line.

B  estimated regression coefficient that has been recalculated to have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 1.

C  statistical procedure that estimates regression equation coefficients that produce the lowest sum of squared differences between the actual and predicted values of a dependent variable.

D  situation in which several independent variables are highly correlated with each other.

E  statistic that compares the amount of variation in the dependent measure “explained” or associated with the independent variables to the “unexplained” or error variance.