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3.2.2 Usage Guidelines

Use of Relative Importance is easy and the operation is
straightforward. You can quickly execute a complete analysis
with a single panel and a few key strokes.  Once the analysis
has completed, you can examine the output report produced,
quickly determine those independent elements that have
minimal effect on the dependent element values, remove those
independent elements and reexecute the Relative Importance
analysis again.  This process can be executed as often as
necessary until the best set of independent elements remains.
Once an optimum set of independent elements has been
determined, they can be used in future studies.