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English noun: dependent variable

1. dependent variable (cognition) (statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable


SamplesIf f(x)=y, y is the dependent variable.


Broader (hypernym)variable, variable quantity


Domain categorystatistics









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