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  • noun Plural form of variable.

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Examples

  • "Each year we budget so much for food cost and build in variables, but we always stick with quality," adds Donnelly.

    When Innovation Is The Enemy Marc Compeau 2010

  • I must confess that I find interaction terms where one of the variables is not a dummy variable fairly bewildering (which is driving which? what about the induced colinearity?).

    The Turner Hypothesis in Comparative Perspective 2009

  • But knowing that your appalling home performances may rest on the fact you've neglected to fiddle with one of these thousands of variables is frustrating.

    Fifa, Football Manager and the problem with 'fun' Jack Arnott 2010

  • "Each year we budget so much for food cost and build in variables, but we always stick with quality," adds Donnelly.

    When Innovation Is The Enemy Marc Compeau 2010

  • "Each year we budget so much for food cost and build in variables, but we always stick with quality," adds Donnelly.

    When Innovation Is The Enemy Marc Compeau 2010

  • How does that fit into the graph? there would have to be 2 instantaneous cases for teeth … maybe a flipping of dependent variables is in order?

    Young & old. 2010

  • Infact, after controlling for regional heterogeneity, any one of these three variables is sufficient to subsume the impact of regime type on wars, militarized interstate disputes (MIDs), and fatal disputes.

    Moral and Mental Development, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Regression using instrument variables is essentially a two-stage regression: first, you regress the price of beer against the log of the instrument variable (use the beer tax, I'm almost positive it's a going to be a better instrument than general sales tax or beer tax + sales tax); second, you regress the log of the quantity of beer consumed against the log of the estimated price of beer obtained from the first regression.

    Beer and Taxes « PubliCola 2010

  • Real-time and historical data on temperature, pressure, wind speed, and many other variables is immediately available for mathematical analysis and visualization.

    Wolfram Blog : Visualizing Weather Patterns in Mathematica 7 2009

  • "Each year we budget so much for food cost and build in variables, but we always stick with quality," adds Donnelly.

    When Innovation Is The Enemy Marc Compeau 2010

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