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First, rank the individual variables within each construct, determining which of the variables within each construct appear to relate most directly to the variable of interest. These will be thought of as your most influential variables. Knowledge from the literature of what relates to the variable of interest is welcome at this point, but you should continue to give extra credence to the clinical experience of the team and what their personal hunches are regarding the relevance of each predictor variable. Once the predictor variables within each construct are ranked, then rank each overall construct based on how directly the entire grouping of predictor variables appears to relate to the variable of interest.