response variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofresponseandvariable
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response
noun
uk/rɪˈspɒns/us/rɪˈspɑːns/
an answer ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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(Definition ofresponseandvariablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theresponsevariablewas the proportion of individuals in a given stage found in each plant.
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The third quantity is the variance of theresponsevariablearound the true expected value.
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Theresponsevariablewas the intensity of attack for each bait, at each census.
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In the simplest model, theresponsevariablewill be independent of the explanatory variables.
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Theresponsevariableis the girl's average amount of physical activity per week at various ages.
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Each plot shows the relationship of the fitted function to theresponsevariable.
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Additionally, in this instance, theresponsevariable, membership in voluntary associations, is not normally distributed.
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Next, difference scores for the communicativeresponsevariable(person present minus person absent) were obtained.
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Standard errors were corrected for overdispersion of theresponsevariable.
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Prevalence was analysed as a binaryresponsevariableand intensity was restricted to 4 levels (1, 2, 3, 4-6 parasites), because of small sample sizes for the high intensities.
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This technique facilitates the explanation of the effects of several predictor variables, which may be quantitative, categorical or a mixture of the two, on the dichotomousresponsevariable.
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The exponential distribution has considerable importance and has had widespread use in the analysis of data in which theresponsevariableis a lifetime.
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Theresponsevariablewas the number of trees flushing leaves per plot per week and the binomial totals were the corresponding total numbers of individuals.
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Because information was collected on herds, the proportion of samples that tested positive within each herd for each pathogen was used as theresponsevariable.
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With the estimates of allometry parameters, we further make a simple transformation to remove the covariance between theresponsevariableand body weight.
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Because some variables partly lacked values, dummy variables were created and the impact of missing values on theresponsevariablewas examined.
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Fecundity was similarly analysed but used the reproductive output of an infection as theresponsevariableand the number of parasitic females as the offset variable.
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Theresponsevariablewas defined as (number of occurrences at the infective bait) - (number of occurrences at the control bait).
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The boundary line is some upper (or lower limit) on the value of theresponsevariableat any given value of the independent variable.
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A generalized linear model was used for egg count data, as theresponsevariablewas not normally distributed (there were many cases when zero eggs were recorded).
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