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EXPERIMENTAL VARIABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
Synonyms:
experimental variable; independent variable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("experimental variable" is a kind of...):
variable; variable quantity (a quantity that can assume any of a set of values)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "experimental variable"):
factor (an independent variable in statistics)
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