PREDICTOR VARIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predictor variable mean? 

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

1. a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDICTOR VARIABLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("predictor 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)