control variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontrolandvariable
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control
noun
uk/kənˈtrəʊl/us/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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variable
adjective
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
likely to ...
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(Definition ofcontrolandvariablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, the type of emotion should have been inserted as acontrolvariable.
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To compensate this term,controlvariablex on the right-hand side of (8) must adjust accordingly.
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The secondcontrolvariable(nonp) is used as an indicator of bank vulnerability.
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The first consideration was conceptual: are there sound theoretical reasons for including a particularcontrolvariable?
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However, this is treated as a system-levelcontrolvariable, rather than used for ex-post prediction.
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Table 2 also suggests that gender may be an importantcontrolvariable.
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The finalcontrolvariableincluded in the estimation equations is a measure of ethnic heterogeneity.
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The academic environment is the most importantcontrolvariablein the study.
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First, language level was entered into each equation as acontrolvariable.
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Secondly, party identification is not included as acontrolvariablein the analyses.
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The rate of unemployment is perhaps the most obviouscontrolvariable.
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Thecontrolvariablemarket capitalization was statistically insignificant; excluding this variable does not alter the findings.
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Individual characteristics of health for example might not be thecontrolvariableof interest.
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Interpreting thecontrolvariableas noise, a relation with the present paper becomes apparent.
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Economies with the same parameter configuration in the standard case will converge to this stationary state (with the appropriate application of thecontrolvariable) notwithstanding differences in the initial conditions.
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Finally, as acontrolvariable, we also include the age of democracy (in years and logged) at the time each cabinet was formed.
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Since this is just acontrolvariable, not a cost-decreasing factor, no prediction about its coefficient's sign is made.
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The 'controlvariable' is provided by performance between 1950 and 1980 - each country's performance after reforms began is compared with its performance in the three decades before the debt crisis.
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All the correlations and regressions are computed also for thiscontrolvariable, in order to verify the results.
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