explanatory variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexplanatoryandvariable
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explanatory
adjective
uk/ɪkˈsplæn.ə.tər.i/us/ɪkˈsplæn.ə.tɔːr.i/
giving an explanation ...
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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 all estimations, the inflation rate is also included as anotherexplanatoryvariable.
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Theorists of social capital have provided us with a powerful additionalexplanatoryvariable.
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Non-farm income is sometimes included as anexplanatoryvariablein regressions of farm decisions.
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Secondly, we extend our analysis to include income as anexplanatoryvariable.
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All include marginal water price as oneexplanatoryvariable.
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The most importantexplanatoryvariablein the multivariate analyses was facility type.
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Therefore, transitory income shocks are a criticalexplanatoryvariable.
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The elasticity is associated with each province for eachexplanatoryvariable.
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We extend our analysis to include income as anexplanatoryvariable.
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Anotherexplanatoryvariablefavoured by demographers is education.
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For instance, we can create a 'hypothetical voter' by assigning values to eachexplanatoryvariable.
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When we assessed who used the self-care book, educational attainment was an importantexplanatoryvariable.
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Eachexplanatoryvariablewas first investigated individually for association with invasive meningococcal disease.
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Since gender and relationship to supporter are interrelated, gender was also included as anexplanatoryvariable.
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A weakly exogenousexplanatoryvariablemay be correlated with current and past realizations of the dependent variables, but must be unrelated to future innovations in the error term. 11.
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For each of the study hypotheses described above, where the potentialexplanatoryvariablewas continuous, a scatter plot was drawn and inspected, and, if appropriate, a linear regression analysis performed.
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Taxonomic grouping was also selected as anexplanatoryvariable.
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