control variable

collocation in English

meanings of controland variable

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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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Examples of control variable

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Thus, the type of emotion should have been inserted as a controlvariable.
To compensate this term, controlvariable x on the right-hand side of (8) must adjust accordingly.
The second controlvariable (nonp) is used as an indicator of bank vulnerability.
The first consideration was conceptual: are there sound theoretical reasons for including a particular controlvariable?
However, this is treated as a system-level controlvariable, rather than used for ex-post prediction.
Table 2 also suggests that gender may be an important controlvariable.
The final controlvariable included in the estimation equations is a measure of ethnic heterogeneity.
The academic environment is the most important controlvariable in the study.
First, language level was entered into each equation as a controlvariable.
Secondly, party identification is not included as a controlvariable in the analyses.
The rate of unemployment is perhaps the most obvious controlvariable.
The controlvariable market capitalization was statistically insignificant; excluding this variable does not alter the findings.
Individual characteristics of health for example might not be the controlvariable of interest.
Interpreting the controlvariable as noise, a relation with the present paper becomes apparent.
Economies with the same parameter configuration in the standard case will converge to this stationary state (with the appropriate application of the controlvariable) notwithstanding differences in the initial conditions.
Finally, as a controlvariable, we also include the age of democracy (in years and logged) at the time each cabinet was formed.
Since this is just a controlvariable, not a cost-decreasing factor, no prediction about its coefficient's sign is made.
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.
All the correlations and regressions are computed also for this controlvariable, in order to verify the results.
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