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What is an independent variable?

What is an independent variable? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (algebra) In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation.
  2. (sciences) The variable that is changed or manipulated in a series of experiments.
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In fact, not one of the four studies looked at education coursework as an independent variable.
If a function calls another function, then resolves all references to other functions in terms of their independent variable.
The Mann-Whitney U test is appropriate when the independent variable has two levels and the dependent variable is measured on an ordinal scale.
In other words, it was more interested in the concept as an independent variable used to explain other social phenomena.
An independent variable is the variable you have control over, what you can choose and manipulate.
Each case has a set of independent variable values and either a known or missing value for the dependent output variable.

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