intervening variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinterveningandvariable
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intervening
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌɪn.təˈviː.nɪŋ/us/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈviː.nɪŋ/
happening between two times or between other events ...
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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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In this respect, empathy can be viewed as aninterveningvariable.
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Theinterveningvariableseems to be the task demands placed on these participants.
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Aninterveningvariableis a construct used to explain complex webs of causation.
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Like corporatism, social democratic participation in government does matter, but rather as aninterveningvariable.
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There must be aninterveningvariablehere which affects both the likelihood of pregnancy and expulsion of the device from the uterus.
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Theories about these objects become sets of "intervening variables," and eachinterveningvariablehad to be separately linked to its specific experimental variables.
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The causal linkage between a multiplicity of independent variables and the many dependent variables they may influence can be explained most economically by positing a centralinterveningvariable.
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Our main conclusion as regards the first puzzle is therefore that corporatism, as a governmental strategy, should not be treated as an effect-producing variable but rather as aninterveningvariable.
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A comparison of methods to test mediation and otherinterveningvariableeffects.
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The mediating role of emotion, implicit in the concept of aninterveningvariable, can be at the basis of the flexibility of empathic responses.
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Policy networks are aninterveningvariablewhich cannot be neglected in the study of ideas in public policy.
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Management style has been reported as an importantinterveningvariable.
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Government spending is one of the variables that is arguably influenced by democracy, however, and is thus largely aninterveningvariableand probably best left out of most models.
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Donor pressure has been the most importantinterveningvariableaccounting for this improvement.
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Disability might be aninterveningvariablehere, with people with affective disorders finding themselves more severely affected than those with other types of problem.
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As the most crucialinterveningvariable, donor influence made the strengthening of domestic revenue generation a precondition for the resumption of official development aid to the country after the transition.
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The very size of the correlation between parental attitudes and behaviour disorder suggests that there is unlikely to be aninterveningvariablewhich could account for this correlation.
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Knowledge of the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms is needed for empathy to be considered as a biologically functionalinterveningvariable.
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Thus, policy networks are theinterveningvariableexplaining why an internationally diffused policy idea is implemented differently in various national settings.
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