Dependent variable
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A dependent variable is used in statistics as the outcome variable which one attempts to predict or explain using one or more independent variables. For example, age of death could be a dependent variable, and gender and current age might be used as independent variables to predict it.
See also
edit- Dependent variable (Wikipedia)
- Independent variable
- Variable