INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does independent variable mean? 

• INDEPENDENT VARIABLE (noun)
  The noun INDEPENDENT VARIABLE has 1 sense:

1. (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables

  Familiarity information: INDEPENDENT VARIABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEPENDENT VARIABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

experimental variable; independent variable

Hypernyms ("independent 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 "independent variable"):

factor (an independent variable in statistics)

 Context examples 

The rate of change of a function y with respect to an independent variable x.

(Mathematical Derivative, NCI Thesaurus)

Regression analysis provides a "best-fit" mathematical equation for the relationship between the dependent variable (response) and independent variable(s) (covariates).

(Parametric Regression Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A summation of many products, each being a successive value of a dependent variable y multiplied by a small increment delta x in the value of its independent variable.

(Mathematical Integral, NCI Thesaurus)

A kernel function described by the equation: ((2PI)^(-0.5))*exp(-u^(2)/2) with u=(x-xi)/h, where h is the window width and xi are the values of the independent variable in the data, and x is the value of the independent variable for which one seeks an estimate.

(Gaussian Kernel, NCI Thesaurus)