A general goal of many statistical data analysis tasks is to relate the influence of one variable on another. Let's suppose three factors count in a game of basketball: FG ,TOV and AST based on the points for each player.
We observe and collect data for 15 players in the team.The player with more points as well as better FG ,AST,TOV are ranked better in the team. We have taken only 3 stats agaisnt the points for a player in GSW team.