dependent variable

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variable

[var´e-ah-b'l]

something that changes; an attribute or property of a person, event, or object that is known to vary in a given study.

dependent variable in a mathematical equation or relationship between two or more variables, a variable whose value depends on those of others; it represents a response, behavior, or outcome that the researcher wishes to predict or explain.

extraneous variable a factor that is not itself under study but affects the measurement of the study variables or the examination of their relationships.

independent variable in a mathematical equation or relationship between two or more variables, any variable whose value determines that of others; it represents the treatment or experimental variable that is manipulated by the researcher to create an effect on the dependent variable.

de·pen·dent var·i·a·ble

in experiments, a variable that is influenced by or dependent on changes in the independent variable; for example, the amount of a written passage retained (dependent variable) as a function of the different numbers of minutes (independent variable) allowed to study the passage.

dependent variable

An objective finding measured in an experiment that is expected to change as a result of an experimental manipulation of the independent variable(s).

dependent variable

Epidemiology An outcome variable/variables that reflects other, independent, variables in the relationship being studied. See Variable.

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Panel data regression is applied in this study to identify the impact of dependent variables (Total Leverage and corporate ownership) and independent variables (firm size, firm age, tax shield, growth opportunity, firm profitability, asset tangibility, assets maturity, earning volatility, corruption perceived index, dividend payout firm level investment and long term leverage).

The Impact Of Corruption On Debt Financing And Corporate Ownership

Values of pH and electrical conductivity and concentrations of aluminum (Al), calcium (Ca), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) metals and sulfate (SO4 2-), nitrate (NO3-) and chloride (Cl-) ions in the particulate matter were taken as dependent variables, while the values of pH and electrical conductivity and concentrations of metals and ions mentioned above in the inert matter/waste were taken as independent variables.

Estimation of Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) at Construction Sites: A Statistical Regression-Based Model

Using the same methodology described above, but replacing the dependent variable, net outlays, with net cost of operations, once again the most suitable independent variable is the POM (w/OCO) position.

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Regression between the independent variable (image) and the dependent variable (switching behavior) showed that there was a significant inverse correlation between these two variables.

The study effect of service quality and corporate brand image on switching behavior, based on model of Sharma and Srivastava (case study of: Esfahan Iran Cell Services Company)

Table 1 shows the mean values for each of the dependent variables when the data are aggregated over all six APs.

A note regarding problems with interaction and varying block sizes in a comparison of endotracheal tubes

This significance shows that the variables under study have a significant effect on the dependent variable.

Factors for Better Selection of Business Universities in Karachi: Perspective of Students

It can be shown algebraically that the lagged dependent variable in Campbell's Model 2 (2012) simply disguises the impact of the president's party on economic performance.

The president's economy: a response to Campbell

This study aims to determine variance-covariance structures of dependent variable in data set containing repeated measures and to compare covariance parameter estimation methods.

DETERMINATION OF APPROPRIATE COVARIANCE STRUCTURES IN RANDOM SLOPE AND INTERCEPT MODEL APPLIED IN REPEATED MEASURES

Multiple Regression methodology is used to analyze several variables and to establish a relationship between dependent variable and independent variables.

Urban local bodies in India: financial control for better financial performance

The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships of three predictor variables, exercise, diet, and Health Locus Of Control (HLOC) to the dependent variable of obesity.

The relationship of exercise, diet, and health locus of control to obesity

Employees' Psychological Disturbance is the dependent variable as only the organizational and economical effect of M&A has been taken in view.

Mergers, acquisitions and downsizing: evidence from a financial sector

Under a steady state condition, the time derivative of each dependent variable in Eq.

The methionine metabolism in human liver cell: steady-state sensitivity analysis by biochemical systems theory